A private person may maintain a civil action for a public nuisance, if it is specially injurious to himself or herself but not otherwise.
RCW 7.48.210
Civil action, who may maintain.
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 41 Wash. App. 343 - Hostetler v. Ward (1985)
Most recently applied in 1 Wash. 3d 925 - Animal Legal Def. Fund v. Olympic Game Farm, Inc. (August 2023)
2011 c 336 s 218; Code 1881 s 1243; 1875 p 80 s 9; RRS s 9921.
How often courts cite this section
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.