The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-08
ORDINANCE No. $40

An ordinance Relating To the
Drainage of Streets, Construction
Of Buildings Along and 0bstruc-
tions i'm City Streets Which Are
Used 10 Form a Part of Primary
Highways of the State of Wash
ington.
The City Council OF the City Of
Kennewick Does ordain as Follows:
Section ]. Definition. Whenever
the words highway street" are
used in this ordinance the same
shall refer TO and designate any
street in the City OF KennewIck
which is used by and forms a por-
ton of a primary state highway Of
the State of Washington.
Section 2. Entrances. Any person
firm or corporation hereafter con-
structing any entrance into a high
way street must first secure a per-
init as hereinafter provided, and
must construct such entrance so
that the same has drain not small
er than ten inches in diameter un-I
der the entire width thereof, pro-
vided. however. that IL the ada
cent land slopes away from the
highway street at the point Of said
entrance, which shall be determined
by the City youncil, then no drain
shall be necessary.
Section 3. Signs. All signs here
after erected along a highway street
must be so placed and constructed
that no portion thereof shall pro-
iect over the right of way OF such
highway street; provided, however,
that upon filing application for per
init SO to do with the City Council
of the City of Kennewick, and aft
er a hearing and upon an order en-
tered by the City Council, permis-
sion may be granted to erect sign
extending over the right OF way OF
any such highway street, which
permit may be revoked at any time
by order of the City Council for any
cause deemed sufficient by the
Council; provided further that no
sign shall be SO erected extending
into or over the right Of way OF a
highway street unless there shall
be clearance of not less than four
teen feet between the surface OF the
street and the lowest portion OF
such sign.
Section 4. Buildings. AL buildings
or other permanent improvements
hereafter constructed along high
yay street must be constructed not
less than ten feet from the right OF
way line OF such highway street,
and in the event such buildings or
improvements are SO constructed as
to invite patrons to use the right OF
way for parking purposes and there
by endangering the users OF the
highway, the City Of Kennewick
shall be entitled to fence such right
Of way in front Of and adjacent TO
such improvements.
Section S. Permits. Application
must be made and a permit grant
ed before the construction hereafter
Of any entrance into any highway
street or before any sign, building
or other structure is hereafter plac-
ed adjacent to the right OF way and
any highway street in such manner
that said right OF way win in any
way be involved in the use Of said
sign, building or other structure,
and which application for permit
shall be made on the form now pro-
vided for building permits in the
City of Kennewick. 81 ..
Section 6. Abatement. Whenever
there shall exist upon the right OF
way of any highway street, or off
the right Of way thereof in suffi-
GENTLY close proximity thereto, any
structure, device or natural or ar
tificial thing which threatens or
endangers such highway street, or
portion thereof, or which tends to
endanger the persons travelling
thereon, and which shall have been
erected and maintained hereafter,
such structure, device or natural or
artificial thing may hereafter be
declared to be a public nuisance
and the City Council is empowered
in the name OF the City OF Kenne-
wick to take such steps as may be
necessary to efefct the abatement OF
fba cop,a Tn nrdor IN effacf crch
abatement the City Council shall
give the owner or person maintain
ing such obstruction notice OF hear
ing and thereafter the City Of Ken