[R.O. 2008 §212.600(D); Ord. No. 5448 §1, 7-29-1996]
A. 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 City 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 the
City, or on any private real property owned by another without his/her
consent.
B. Presumption Of Responsibility. The operator of a vehicle
or vessel shall be presumed responsible for litter which is thrown,
dropped or left from the vehicle or vessel on Mozingo Park property
or waters.
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 an ordinance violation 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
ninety (90) days, 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.