[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Geneva 7-3-1968
as Ch. 65, §§ 65.3 and 65.100D, of the 1968 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 7-16-1996 by Ord. No. 5-96]
A.
No person shall throw, cast, drop, put or place, or having
accidentally dropped, failed to pick up any bag, bottle, bottle cap, box,
container, garbage, paper, piece of paper, wrapper, cigarette or cigarette
container or cigarette filter or any other trash or litter, in or upon any
public park, place, playground, cemetery, fountain, street or building, except
in receptacles provided for such purposes.
B.
Visitors wishing to utilize any public park within the
city to include the Geneva Lakefront area shall be responsible for removing
all trash brought into the above designated areas. It is the intent of this
section that visitors shall adopt a carry-in/carry-out policy and that utilization
of trash receptacles located in the park areas are for the purpose of collection
of small objects and not for the purpose of collection of garbage and refuse.
C.
Violation of any of the provisions of this section shall
be punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500 or by imprisonment
not exceeding 15 days, or by both said fine and imprisonment.
[Added by Ord. No. 81-27, eff. 9-2-1981]
A violation of the provisions of this chapter at the Chamber of Commerce
Lake Site and the property immediately adjacent thereto on the east and commonly
known as the Gil Waltz Memorial property shall be punishable by a mandatory,
minimum fine of $50 and a maximum fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment
not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
