A person commits the offense of littering if he/she throws or
places, or causes to be thrown or placed, any glass, glass bottles,
wire, nails, tacks, hedge, cans, garbage, trash, refuse, or rubbish
of any kind, nature or description on the right of way of any public
road or State Highway or on or in any of the waters in this State
or on the banks of any stream, or on any land or water owned, operated
or leased by the State, any Board, Department, Agency or Commission
thereof or on any land or water owned, operated or leased by the Federal
Government or on any private real property owned by another without
his/her consent.
[Ord. No. 95-37 §215.101, 8-3-1995]
A. In
order to promote the health, peace, and safety of the inhabitants
of the City and to protect said inhabitants against an intolerable
annoyance and nuisance, the distribution, delivering, scattering or
passing out of handbills, printed advertisements, programs, announcements,
pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, booklets and printed matter, or
papers of every kind and description from house to house, or from
person to person, within the corporate limits of the City, free of
cost to the persons receiving or intended to receive them, is hereby
declared to be unlawful.
B. Every
person, firm, association or corporation, or the agent or representative
of any of them, who shall distribute or cause to be distributed, deliver
or cause to be delivered, scatter or cause to be scattered, pass out
or cause to be passed out, any handbills, printed advertisement, programs,
announcements, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, booklets, or printed
matter, or papers of every kind and description from house to house,
or from person to person, within the corporate limits of the City,
free of cost to the persons receiving or intended to receive them,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Whoever willfully or maliciously poisons, defiles or in any
way corrupts the water of a well, spring, brook or reservoir used
for domestic or municipal purposes, or whoever willfully or maliciously
diverts, dams up and holds back from its natural course and flow any
spring, brook or other water supply for domestic or municipal purposes,
after said water supply shall have once been taken for use by any
person or persons, corporation, town or city for their use, shall
be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not less
than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00),
or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding one (1)
year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall be liable to
the party injured for three (3) times the actual damage sustained,
to be recovered by suit at law.