A.
A person
commits the offense of abandonment of airtight icebox if he/she abandons,
discards or knowingly 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 (1½) 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.
A person commits the offense of littering if he/she throws or
places or causes to be thrown or placed 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 on any private real property owned by another without
his/her consent.
A.
If
any person or persons 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, every person so offending shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more
than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
B.
If
any person 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, or other nuisance to the annoyance of the citizens of this
City, or any of them, every person so offending shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined for every offense not less than twenty-five dollars
($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and if such
nuisance be not removed within three (3) days thereafter, it shall
be deemed a second (2nd) offense against the provisions of this Section.
Whoever willfully or maliciously poisons, 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, shall
be adjudged guilty of an ordinance violation and punished by a fine
not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding
ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall
be liable to the party injured for three (3) times the actual damage
sustained, to be recovered by suit at law.
A.
A person
commits the offense of abandoning a motor vehicle or trailer if he/she
abandons any motor vehicle or trailer on the right-of-way of any public
road or State highway or on or in any of the waters in this State
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 any political subdivision thereof or on any land or water
owned, operated or leased by the Federal Government or on any private
real property owned by another without his/her consent.
B.
For
purposes of this Section, the last owner of record of a motor vehicle
or trailer found abandoned and not shown to be transferred pursuant
to Sections 301.196 and 301.197, RSMo., shall be deemed prima facie
to have been the owner of such motor vehicle or trailer at the time
it was abandoned and to have been the person who abandoned the motor
vehicle or trailer or caused or procured its abandonment. The registered
owner of the abandoned motor vehicle or trailer shall not be subject
to the penalties provided by this Section if the motor vehicle or
trailer was in the care, custody or control of another person at the
time of the violation. In such instance, the owner shall submit such
evidence in an affidavit permitted by the court setting forth the
name, address, and other pertinent information of the person who leased,
rented or otherwise had care, custody or control of the motor vehicle
or trailer at the time of the alleged violation. The affidavit submitted
pursuant to this Subsection shall be admissible in a court proceeding
adjudicating the alleged violation and shall raise a rebuttable presumption
that the person identified in the affidavit was in actual control
of the motor vehicle or trailer. In such case, the court has the authority
to terminate the prosecution of the summons issued to the owner and
issue a summons to the person identified in the affidavit as the operator.
If the motor vehicle or trailer is alleged to have been stolen, the
owner of the motor vehicle or trailer shall submit proof that a Police
report was filed in a timely manner indicating that the vehicle was
stolen at the time of the alleged violation.
C.
Any
person convicted pursuant to this Section shall be civilly liable
for all reasonable towing, storage and administrative costs associated
with the abandonment of the motor vehicle or trailer. Any reasonable
towing, storage and administrative costs in excess of the value of
the abandoned motor vehicle or trailer that exist at the time the
motor vehicle is transferred pursuant to Section 304.156, RSMo., shall
remain the liability of the person convicted pursuant to this Section
so long as the towing company, as defined in Chapter 304, RSMo., provided
the title owner and lienholders, as ascertained by the Department
of Revenue records, a notice within the timeframe and in the form
as described in Subsection (1) of Section 304.156, RSMo.
