For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning:
The throwing away of an icebox, refrigerator, or freezer
on vacant property, junk heaps, trash piles, or debris accumulations
or any other act which at common law would constitute an abandonment
of personal property.
The placing of an icebox, refrigerator, or freezer not in
use in a garage, barn, outbuilding, porch, yard, lot, or other portion
of premises where persons may come upon it and be attracted to it.
(1998 Code, sec. 94.10)
A violation of section 8.03.003 shall be punishable by a fine of up to $200.00. Each day this section is violated shall be a separate offense.
(1998 Code, sec. 94.99(B))
The abandonment or dangerous exposure of an icebox, refrigerator,
or freezer with its doors in normal latching or locking condition
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and a serious menace to
life because of the danger of persons, especially children, entering
such an icebox, refrigerator, or freezer and becoming locked inside
and suffocating.
(1998 Code, sec. 94.11)
(a)
The
owner of an abandoned or dangerously exposed icebox, refrigerator,
or freezer and the owner or occupant of the premises where an abandonment
or dangerous exposure occurs shall remove the door or dismantle or
remove the latch or lock holding the door shut on the icebox, refrigerator,
or freezer.
(b)
A
person commits an offense if he or she abandons or dangerously exposes,
or causes or permits to be abandoned or dangerously exposed, an icebox,
refrigerator, or freezer unless the latch or lock holding each door
shut is dismantled or removed so that the door may be opened from
within by pushing on it.
(1998 Code, sec. 94.12)
