[Code 1962 §18-173; CC 1979 §12-44; Ord. No. 880 §I, 10-3-1974; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977; Ord. No. 88-12 §2, 3-15-1988]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to litter, dump or throw cans, paper,
straw, sawdust, boxes, glass, metal vessels or containers, iron, clothes,
bottles, filth, offal, trash, rubbish, garbage or other materials
on public rights-of-way, public squares, alleys, sidewalks, parks,
or any of the waterways in the City, or adjoining grounds.
B.
There
shall be a rebuttable presumption that any person whose name appears
as an addressee with a postmark on any unlawfully disposed of litter
as defined above shall be deemed the person who unlawfully disposed
of said litter.
C.
A violation
of this Section shall be punishable by a fine not less than one hundred
dollars ($100.00) nor to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or
a jail sentence not to exceed three (3) months, or by both such fine
and jail sentence.
[Code 1962 §18-173; CC 1979 §12-45; Ord. No. 880 §§II, III(a)-(c), 10-3-1974; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to put, or cause to be put, any offal,
filth, cans, bottles, trash or rubbish on any property of another,
either public or private, within the City limits.
B.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, or cause to be deposited,
scattered, burned, or leave any grass or weed clippings, garbage,
rubbish, empty barrels or cartons, bottles, ashes, cinders, earth,
glass, paper, clothes, ice, dirt, filth, manure, or other offensive
materials in any public street or alley or ditches along streets or
alleys or on any public property in the City, except approved private
or public dumps, and except certain of such materials if used in a
normal manner for improving property by grading, surfacing or fertilizing.
C.
No
person shall intentionally throw or deposit or leave in any public
street, public square, alley or public place, or in any private place
or premises, any glass, broken or unbroken, any metal, stone, earth,
dirt, earthenware, nails, tacks, wire, cinders or other substance
of a nature likely to cause injury to travelers or pedestrians or
to injure any horse or other animal, or which might injure, cut or
puncture any pneumatic tire.
D.
Nothing
in this Article shall be construed to prohibit the disposition of
garbage by means of burning the same in an incinerator enclosed within
a building and approved by the Building Inspector, and nothing in
this Article shall be construed to prohibit the use of any standard
garbage disposal unit so constructed as to grind and pulverize garbage
so that it may be flushed into the sanitary sewers.
[CC 1979 §12-46; Ord. No. 880 §III(d), 10-3-1974; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977]
No person shall drive or move any vehicle within the City, the
wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any public street
or on the public square of the City or in any other public place of
the City, mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of
any kind, and if any person shall so deposit or carry onto the street,
the public square or other public places any such substances it shall
be the duty of such person, upon receiving knowledge thereof, to remove
such substances from the public way immediately; provided however,
it shall be the duty of any person to whom a building permit shall
have been issued, and not the duty of the driver or owner of such
vehicle, to remove at least once each working day any such substances
deposited or carried on the public streets, public square or other
public places of the City by any vehicle entering or leaving the site
of the building or construction project for which the building permit
was issued.
