{"id":56032,"date":"2022-03-16T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-wants-your-opinion-on-new-firework-enforcement-rules-king-county\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:02:00","slug":"king-county-wants-your-opinion-on-new-firework-enforcement-rules-king-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-wants-your-opinion-on-new-firework-enforcement-rules-king-county\/","title":{"rendered":"King County wants your opinion on new firework enforcement rules | King County"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a press release from King County:<\/em><\/p>\n

With consumer fireworks now prohibited<\/a> in the unincorporated King County, officials are working to establish a complaint-based process that addresses violators and wants to hear from the public.<\/p>\n

Residents can submit their comments on the proposed ordinance<\/a> through April 10. The amendments include:<\/p>\n

• Classifying violations as “civil violations” rather than criminal. It also specifies that a violation of a “reckless manner which creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person or damage to the property of another” is classified as a gross misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

• Requiring a public complaint be filed with the Permitting Division of King County Local Services to trigger enforcement of fireworks violations and imposition of civil penalties. Complaints must:<\/p>\n

– Include enough information for the violation to be actionable.<\/p>\n

– Be specific to violations occurring on properties in unincorporated King County.<\/p>\n

– Be tracked by the department for reporting purposes.<\/p>\n

• Establishing the procedures for issuing warnings and citations for violations, specifically that:<\/p>\n

– A warning will be issued for the first complaint against the person, and a citation will be issued for the second complaint.<\/p>\n

– Warnings\/citations can be revoked or modified by the director if there is an error.<\/p>\n

– The director’s decision on contested warnings\/citations is appealable to the hearing examiner.<\/p>\n

– Warnings\/citations must tracked by the department for reporting purposes.<\/p>\n

To read a draft of the Proposed Fireworks Enforcement Ordinance, as well as a plain language summary of the proposed changes, visit Permitting’s Legislation for public review and comment page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SUBMIT A COMMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comments may be submitted via the following methods:<\/p>\n

• Postal mail: Robin Proebsting, King County Permitting Division, 35030 SE Douglas St. Suite 210, Snoqualmie, WA 98065-9266<\/p>\n

• Voicemail: 206-263-3000<\/p>\n

• E-mail: permittinglegislation@kingcounty.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your comments will be accepted through April 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":56033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56032"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}