[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Morrisville,
5-22-1958 as Art. XIII of the 1958 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, sweep, spill, place or
cause to be thrown, spilled, placed, deposited, swept or left in or upon any
street, highway, alley, sidewalk, park or other public place within the Village
of Morrisville any dirt, sweepings, filth, garbage, vegetables, compost, ashes,
cans, waste, paper, leaves, brush, weeds, grass, hay, straw, shavings or other
litter or loose and combustible material subject to being carried by the winds
or any unwholesome, odorous or otherwise objectionable material of any kind.
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the placing of garbage or refuse
on the outer edge of a sidewalk or near the curb, in covered containers for
removal by village employees or temporarily for collection in another manner
approved by the Board of Trustees. No one, without proper authority, shall
disturb or remove the cover of such container or willfully spill or tip over
the contents of such containers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit or cause to
be thrown or deposited into any drain, catch basin, public sewer or gutter
or into any creek any garbage, litter or other substance.
It shall be unlawful for any person who owns or occupies premises within
the village upon which is situated any stable, privy, sewer drain, cistern,
vault or any unwholesome condition not to clean and abate the same within
twenty-four (24) hours after notice by the Board of Trustees or the health
officer that the same has become unwholesome, nauseous or a menace to health.
The depositing of sewage without treatment upon the ground or in any
stream or ditch or waterway within the corporate limits of the village is
absolutely forbidden.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Section 13.6, which immediately followed this
subsection and dealt with the village dump, was deleted 12-12-1991 by L.L.
No. 1-1991.
Any person found guilty of a violation of this chapter shall be punishable
by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment
not exceeding fifteen (15) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
