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City of Trenton, MO
Grundy County
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New Laws (26) Index
A. 
A person commits the offense of abandonment of an airtight or semi-airtight container if he or she knowingly abandons, discards, or permits to remain on premises under his or 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.
D. 
The offense of abandonment of an airtight or semi-airtight container is an ordinance violation.
A person commits the offense of littering if he/she throws or places or causes to be thrown or placed any grass clippings, glass, glass bottles, wire, nails, tacks, hedge, cans, garbage, trash, refuse 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.
A. 
A person commits the offense of unlawful disposition of a dead animal if he or she knowingly places or causes to be placed the carcass or offal of any dead animal:
1. 
Into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, pond, or lake; or
2. 
On any public road or highway, river, stream, or watercourse or upon premises not his or her own for the purpose of annoying another or others.
A. 
A person commits the offense of tampering with a water supply if he or she purposely:
1. 
Poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts the water of a well, spring, brook or reservoir used for domestic or municipal purposes; or
2. 
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 his/her, their or its use.
B. 
The offense of tampering with a water supply is an ordinance violation.
If any person shall cause or permit to remain on the premises of which such person is in possession, or shall dig or cause to be dug, or shall make any excavations, in or adjoining any highway, or to any public place, or to any well, cistern, vault or pit, and shall leave the same open and exposed without sufficient fence, or without being sealed, capped, covered or filled, or shall suffer or permit any cellar door or grating opening on any street or thoroughfare to be and remain open or in an unsafe and dangerous condition, whereby persons may be in danger of falling on or over such cellar door or into such cellar, vault, cistern, pit or well, he/she shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation; provided, that any fence, cap, seal or cover on a well, cistern, vault or pit required by this Section shall be of a permanent nature, and shall be of reasonably sufficient strength, height and durability and shall be secured and fastened to the extent of prohibiting entrance thereto.
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Cross References — As to cellar doors, gratings, etc., opening above or below sidewalk surface, §530.060; as to protection and lighting of excavations generally, §530.090; as to excavations generally, §§530.110 et seq.
If any person shall enter upon or into any lands, tenements or other possessions, with force or strong hand, or with weapons, or by breaking open the doors or windows or other parts of a house, whether any person be in it or not, or by threatening to kill, maim or beat the party in possession, or by such words or actions as have a natural tendency to excite fear or apprehension of danger, or by putting out of doors or carrying away the goods of the party in possession, or by entering peaceably and then turning out by force, or frightening, by threats or other circumstances of terror, the party out of possession, and detain and hold the same in every such case, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a "forcible entry and detainer" within the meaning of this Chapter.