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EVERETT WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. 3692-19 An Ordinance Relating to Interference with a Health Care Facility, amending Ordinance No. 1145-85, as previously amended. WHEREAS, A. The crime Interference with a Health Care Facility is a gross misdemeanor crime codified under State law as RCW 9A.50.020 and RCW 9A.50.030. This crime has not yet been incorporated into the Everett Municipal Code. B. The City of Everett is home to numerous health care facilities. It is vitally important to public health and safety that such facilities be permitted to carry out their health care tasks without the disruption of criminals violating the Interference with a Health Care Facility law. Incorporating RCW 9A.50.020 and RCW 9A.50.030 into the Everett Municipal Code will permit the City to prosecute this criminal conduct. C. The City of Everett has the power to provide for the punishment of all practices dangerous to public health or safety, and to make necessary for the preservation of public health, peace and good order and to provide for the punishment of all persons charged with violating any city ordinances. D. The Everett City Council deems it appropriate for the City of Everett criminal laws to incorporate corresponding State law, that the City of Everett may prosecute such crimes. NOW,THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Ordinance No. 1145-85 is amended by the addition of the following section which will be codified as EMC 10.68.070: Interference with health care facility. A. It is unlawful for a person except as otherwise protected by state or federal law, alone or in concert with others, to willfully or recklessly interfere with access to or from a health care facility or willfully or recklessly disrupt the normal functioning of such facility by: 1. Physically obstructing or impeding the free passage of a person seeking to enter or depart from the facility or from the common areas of the real property upon which the facility is located; 2. Making noise that unreasonably disturbs the peace within the facility;