Code Enforcement

Code Enforcement Officers work normal business hours. For urgent responses, please call 9-1-1.

To leave a voicemail, please call 425-744-6254 to leave a message.  Please include details and contact information.  The message phone is checked during regular business hours.  

  1. Nuisance Properties
  2. Parking Regulations
  3. Towed Vehicles

Mountlake Terrace Municipal Code Nuisance regulations. 

You may report or inquire about the condition of a property in person, by phone or online.

If you leave a message, please include specific details about the location and condition of the property. You may submit an anonymous report.

Once a case has been opened on a property, Code Enforcement Officers work with the property owners to gain compliance. Generally this is voluntary and completed in a timely manner.

If the property owner does not choose to comply or has extenuating circumstances, progress may be slow or not evident for a period of time. You may contact Code Enforcement for updated information on a case.

All citizens are given reasonable due process to abate the nuisance dependent on the urgency of the condition.

Common Nuisance and Parking Violations information sheet. 

Notice of Nuisance Properties

If you have received a Notice of Violation, you will have been given specific details about the condition that needs to be remedied and a time frame within which to comply. Failure to comply may result in civil fines. Fine may be charged per violation. Each day a violation is allowed to continue constitutes an additional violation.

Fines must be paid within 15 days.

You may request a hearing within 15 days of a fine or official Notice and Order being issued. Hearings are held at the Mountlake Terrace Police Department every other month with a Hearing Examiner presiding.

  1. Police Department

    Physical Address
    23250 58th Avenue W
    Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043

    Fax 425-776-5788
    Emergency Phone 911

    For General Questions
    Contact the Police Department

    Reporting Non-Emergency
    Phone: 425-407-3999

    Hours
    Monday - Friday
    7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.