Nothing which is done or maintained under the express authority of a statute, can be deemed a nuisance.
RCW 7.48.160
Authorized act not a nuisance.
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 55 Wash. 2d 400 - Ackerman v. Port of Seattle (1960)
Most recently applied in 190 Wash. 2d 249 - Chelan Basin Conservancy v. GBI Holding Co. (March 2018)
Code 1881 s 1238; 1875 p 79 s 4; RRS s 9916.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.