Port Townsend, WA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

Any materials, garbage, waste, refuse, litter, or debris in which insects may breed or multiply or which may provide harborage for rats or other vermin.

3. Any open drain, sewer, or septic tank that emits any noxious, foul, offensive, injurious, unpleasant, or disagreeable odor or substance.

4. Any noxious, foul, or putrid substance.

E. Dangerous or Hazardous Conditions.

1. The existence on any outdoor premises, in a place accessible to children, of any unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other large appliance;

2. Any excavated or naturally occurring hole, vault, sump, pit, well, or any other similar condition, that is not fenced or otherwise secured to prevent access.

3. Allowing, creating or maintaining the existence of an attractive nuisance.

4. The existence on any premises of any abandoned or unused well, cistern or storage tank without first demolishing or removing from the city such storage tank or securely closing and barring any entrance or trapdoor thereto or without filling any well or cistern or capping the same with sufficient security to prevent access thereto by children.

F. Streets, Sidewalks, and Public Rights-of-Way.