[Code 1964, § 14-5]
For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
The scattering or dropping of rubbish or trash or other matter.
Any type of debris or rejected matter.
Worn out, used, broken up or worthless matter or material.
[Code 1964, § 14-6]
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, move or propel
a vehicle or to allow a vehicle owned by such person to be driven,
moved or propelled in such a manner as to cause to be spilled, dropped
or cast onto any street, highway, thoroughfare, sidewalk or other
public place in the city any trash or rubbish, or to load or allow
a vehicle to be loaded so that the contents or any portion of the
contents of such vehicle shall be spilled, dropped or cast from such
vehicle. Vehicles, including trucks loaded with or transporting any
construction material, dirt, earth, clay, stone, macadam, brick, paper,
cement, sand, fuel, coal, wood, refuse or garbage, shall be so loaded
and the vehicle shall be in such condition that none of the contents
shall be lost or spilled along the route which the vehicle is traveling.
[Code 1964, § 14-7; Ord. No. 1537, § 1, 12-17-1992]
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place, deposit,
or cause to be thrown, placed or deposited, or permit any one in his
or her employ to throw, place or deposit, onto any public or private
highway, thoroughfare, street, sidewalk or onto any other public place
any kind of wire, scrap paper, ashes, cans or glass of any character,
leaves, yard waste, branches, grass or grass clippings, or animal,
vegetable or any other substance whatever, or any type of advertising
matter, or to distribute or cause to be distributed or to permit anyone
in his or her employ to distribute any type of advertising matter
in a manner as to cause the littering of any public or private highway,
thoroughfare, street, sidewalk or other public place. It shall further
be unlawful for any person to sweep or otherwise relocate, or cause
to be swept or relocated, or cause anyone in his or her employ to
sweep or otherwise relocate from any premises any refuse or dirt from
such premises onto any public highway, thoroughfare, street, sidewalk
or other public place in the city.
[Code 1964, § 14-8]
It shall be unlawful for any person operating a vehicle or being
a passenger in any vehicle to throw or cause to be thrown from such
vehicle onto any public highway, thoroughfare, street, sidewalk or
other public place in the city, any rubbish or trash, fruit or fruit
particles, wrappers, containers, papers, paper products, bottles,
glass, cans, hulls, handbills, confetti, shavings, shells, stalks,
animals, cloth or any other material of any kind which would render
such public highway, thoroughfare, street, sidewalk or other public
place unsightly, unsafe, unclean or unsanitary.
[Code 1964, § 14-9]
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter. No person shall
throw or deposit litter on: any private property in the city, whether
owned by such person or not; provided that the owner or person in
control of private property may maintain authorized private receptacles
for the deposit of rubbish or other waste materials in such a manner
that waste materials will be prevented from being carried or deposited
onto any public or private property.
[Code 1964, § 14-10]
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any land, premises
or property within the city for the dumping or disposal of any garbage,
trash, rubbish, offal, filth, excrement, discarded building materials
or combustible materials of any kind without first having made application
for and receiving a permit to do so. The application therefor shall
be filed with the city engineer and shall state the location of the
land, premises or property, the name of the owner of such premises
or property, the manner in which the dumping or disposal is to be
accomplished, and the means and methods by which the applicant proposes
to secure the same against the danger of disease, fire and other menaces
to the public health, and to provide for the suppression of rodents,
mosquitos and other insects. Upon receipt of such application, the
city engineer shall make, or cause to be made by duly authorized representatives,
an investigation of the proposed location and method of dumping or
disposal, and the method proposed by the applicant to secure the same
against the danger of disease, fire and other menaces to the public
health and to provide for the suppression of rodents, mosquitoes and
other insects. Upon such investigation and a finding that the proposed
dumping will not cause any danger to the public health, the city engineer
shall issue such permit upon the payment of a fee of four dollars
($4.00).
[Ord. No. 2129 § 2, 3-18-2010]
(a)
Whenever litter is thrown, deposited, dropped or dumped from any
motor vehicle, boat, airplane or other conveyance in violation of
this Section, it shall be prima facie evidence that the operator of
the conveyance has violated this Section.
(b)
Whenever any litter which is dumped, deposited, thrown or left on
property in violation of this Chapter is discovered to contain any
article, including, but not limited to, letters, bills, publications
or other writing which display the name of the person thereon in such
a manner to indicate that the article belongs or belonged to such
person, it shall be a rebuttable presumption that such person has
violated this Section.
[Ord. No. 2129 § 2, 3-18-2010]
In addition to the penalties set out in Chapter 1 of this Code of Ordinances, upon conviction for violating any provision of this Chapter the court may:
(1)
Order the violator to reimburse the City for the reasonable cost
of removing the litter when the litter is or is ordered removed by
the City; and/or
(2)
Order the violator to pick up and remove any and all litter from
any public property, private right-of-way for a distance not to exceed
one (1) mile or, with prior permission of the legal owner or tenant
in lawful possession of private property, any such private property
upon which it can be established by competent evidence that he has
deposited litter, including any litter he has deposited and any litter
deposited thereon by anyone else prior to the date of execution of
sentence.
