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,,- EIf_ FETT ORDINANCE NO. 79,747/- AN ORDINANCE relating to Stalking, adding a new section to chapter 10.16 of the Everett Criminal Code (Ord. 1145-85). WHEREAS, the 1992 Legislature of the State of Washington, in connection with the passage of House Bill 2702, has found unlawful certain conduct relating to harassment to be a statewide problem; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: A new section is added to chapter 10.16 of the Everett Criminal Code (Ord. 1145-85) to read as follows: Stalking. A person commits the crime of stalking if, without lawful authority and under circumstances not amounting to a felony attempt of another crime: (a) He or she intentionally and repeatedly follows another person to that person's home, school, place of employment, business, or any other location, or follows the person while the person is in transit between locations; and (b) The person being followed is intimidated, harassed, or placed in fear that the stalker intends to injure the person or property of the person being followed or of another person. The feeling of fear, intimidation, or harassment must be one that a reasonable person in the same situation would experience under all the circumstances; and (c) The stalker either: (i) Intends to frighten, intimidate, or harass the person being followed; or (ii) Knows or reasonably should know that the person being followed is afraid, intimidated or harassed even if the stalker did not intend to place the person in fear or intimidate or harass the person. (2)(a) It is not a defense to the crime of stalking under subsection (1)(c)(ii) of this section that the stalker did not intend to frighten, intimidate, or harass the person being followed.