No person shall intentionally place or expose, or cause to be placed or exposed, in any yard or lot of vacant or enclosed land, or on any gallery, fence, doorstep or porch, or in any outhouse, or in any exposed place or public place, or on any street, alley or highway, or other place, where the same may be taken internally by any child, person, or by any domestic animal or fowl, any poisonous substance which, if taken internally, may cause death or serious sickness.
(Ord. 15014 § 1, 1954-05-10)
Users of poisonous substances, sold commercially for home or garden use for destroying rodents and household or garden pests and used for such purposes, shall not be subject to this chapter. Users of poisonous substances, sold commercially as insecticides, fungicides or herbicides, and used for such purpose in sprays or dust, shall not be subject to this chapter. Merchants keeping, displaying or selling commercial poisonous products approved by the Department of Food and Drugs of the United States Department of Agriculture shall not be subject to this chapter. Exterminators, and their materials, duly licensed by the City of Tacoma, and exterminators, and their materials, under the direction and supervision of the United States Public Health Service, or any other Federal, State or municipal authority or agency, shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter when in the performance of such authorized work.
(Ord. 15014 § 2, 1954-05-10)
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine in a sum not exceeding $500.00, or by imprisonment in the Pierce County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 15014 § 3, 1954-05-10; Ord. 22600 § 35, 1981-12-29)