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City of Higginsville, MO
Lafayette County
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[Ord. No. 2667 § 1, 4-3-2017]
A. 
A person commits the offense of abandonment of an airtight or semi-airtight container if he/she knowingly abandons, discards or permits to remain on premises under his/her control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container, which has a capacity of one and one-half (1 1/2) cubic feet or more and an opening of fifty (50) square inches or more, and which has a door or lid equipped with hinge, latch or other fastening device, capable of securing such door or lid without rendering such equipment harmless to human life by removing such hinges, latches or other hardware, which may cause a person to be confined therein.
B. 
Subsection (A) of this Section does not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse operator or repair person.
C. 
The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue under Subsection (B) of this Section.
[Ord. No. 2667 § 1, 4-3-2017]
A person commits the offense of littering if he/she places, deposits or causes to be placed or deposited 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.
[Ord. No. 2667 § 1, 4-3-2017]
A. 
A person commits an offense if he or she:
1. 
Shall put any dead animal, carcass or part thereof, the offal, or any other filth into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, pond or lake; or
2. 
Shall remove or cause to be removed and placed in or near any public road or highway, or upon premises not his/her own, or in any river, stream or watercourse any dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, for the purpose of annoying another or others.
[Ord. No. 2667 § 1, 4-3-2017]
Whoever, purposefully, 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, is guilty of an offense.