Pierce County, WA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

150, titled Unlawful to Blockade Streets While Peddling, sits in the peddlers and solicitors chapter and specifically targets crowd-drawing sales activity rather than general encroachments like parked equipment or landscaping. The section makes it unlawful for anyone selling or offering an article for sale, whether peddling or soliciting, to obstruct or cause the obstruction of the passage of a sidewalk, street, avenue, alley, or other public place by causing people to congregate at or near the point of sale. 110, and now cannot also draw a crowd that blocks the right-of-way.

090, showing it has stood unchanged through the chapter's later amendments (including 2012's Ord. 2012-17 licensing update). 170, a violation is treated as a criminal misdemeanor rather than a civil infraction, distinguishing it from Pierce County's separate right-of-way encroachment permitting rules that apply to physical structures and are handled administratively by Planning and Public Works.