[Adopted 2-19-1974 by Ord. No. 4; amended in its entirety 3-9-2004 (Ch. 50 of
the 1993 Code)]
It shall be unlawful to place, leave, deposit or otherwise undertake
to dispose of any waste, trash, garbage, refuse or any other discarded
item, of whatever composition or description, solid, organic or otherwise,
upon any private property without the written consent of the owner,
or upon any public property or right-of-way in Henderson County, except
such of the above-mentioned and -described material as may be completely
deposited or placed completely within a garbage container or any other
container which may be provided for such purposes.
It shall be unlawful to deface, abuse, burn in or damage in
any way any garbage container, or any other container or receptacle
which may hereafter be provided for the deposit or collection of trash,
garbage and waste.
It shall be unlawful to knowingly enter into or remove anything
from any garbage container or any other container or receptacle which
may hereafter be provided for the deposit or collection of trash,
garbage and waste. The owner of material deposited in the garbage
container is exempt from this provision.
It shall be unlawful to scavenge or remove from the premises
upon which garbage containers are located any trash, garbage, waste
or thing of value which has been deposited for collection. The owner
of material deposited in the garbage container is exempt from this
provision.
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any provision of this Part 1 shall be fined not more than $500 for each offense. Each separate item of trash, waste, garbage or discarded solid refuse dumped or disposed of in violation of any of the foregoing sections shall be treated as a separate offense.
