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.
[CC 1978 §64.020]
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized
private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it
from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place or upon private property.
[CC 1978 §64.040]
No person shall burn any litter, as defined in Section 210.174, in any street, gutter, or other public place within the City.
[CC 1978 §64.080; Ord. No. 95-798, 11-20-1995]
A.
No
person shall throw or deposit litter on any private property within
the City, whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner
or person in control of private property may maintain authorized private
receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented
from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place or upon any private property owned by another.
1.
Within the meaning of this Section the word "litter" shall include,
without excluding other substances, eggs, fluid filled balloons, projectiles
or debris of any type which can be thrown or deposited upon private
property whether solid, liquid or gas.
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.
[Ord. No. 16 §1, 7-18-2011]
A.
No
person shall urinate or defecate in, from or upon any street, highway,
sidewalk, alley, plaza, park, public building, public property, private
parking lot or any place open to the public or exposed to public view.
This Section shall not apply to urination or defecation utilizing
appropriate fixtures in any restroom or any other facility designed
for the sanitary disposal of human waste.
[1]
Editor's Note — Ord. no. 16 §1, adopted July 18,
2011, repealed section 210.190 "corrupting or diverting water supply"
and enacted new provisions set out herein. The city council determined
former section 210.190 was no longer necessary.
A person commits the offense of abandoning a motor vehicle if
he/she abandons any motor vehicle 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.