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 children at play may come upon it and be attracted
to it.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.401)
The abandonment or dangerous exposure of an icebox, refrigerator
or freezer with its door, or 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 children entering such an
icebox, refrigerator or freezer and becoming locked inside and suffocating.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.402)
(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, has the duty to 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 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 simply pushing on it.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.403)
