Keeping up with the codes

BCheney Police Department Capt. Rick Campbell spent the summer of 2016 chasing a couch around town.

Obviously, Campbell performed other duties, but part of his new role of code enforcement officer had him watching for “free” signs placed on indoor furniture and appliances that are then left along a property’s street side. Doing so is a violation of the city’s municipal code 19.18.050, with violators subject to a possible $513 fine.

Campbell said the couch was quickly taken from in front of a home, only to appear again in a business’s parking lot. It disappeared again, but another couch bearing...