(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. Every waste or refuse, animal, fruit or vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storage of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables.
LITTER. Cans; paper; furniture and furniture parts; motor vehicle parts (including tires) which are unfit for further use due to defective and missing parts; boats and boat parts which are unfit for further use due to defective or missing parts; appliances and appliance parts which are unfit for further use due to defective or missing parts.
RUBBISH. Foods, wire, chips, shavings, tree clippings, brush, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tins, cast or woodenware, boxes, rags, dead weeds, paper, circulars, handbills, boots, shoes, ashes, oil and other waste materials other than garbage or offal.
SCRAP METAL. Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or other materials, whether intact or in parts whether in its original manufactured form or crashed, damaged or compacted, and which can no longer be useful for its originally intended purpose. SCRAP METAL may also include parts of automobiles, trucks and trailers.
USED BUILDING MATERIALS. Any materials such as wood, stone, brick, cement block, cement, roofing material, used fencing, trailer skirting and trailer parts, or any composition thereof used or useful in the erection of building or structure, which has been used previously for such erection or construction by the same person or other persons.
(B) No owner, occupant, lessee, agent, tenant or person having charge of or the responsibility for any lot or land within the village shall cause or allow garbage, litter, rubbish, used building materials or scrap metals, to be collected, stored or allowed to remain upon such lands or lands open to the public.
(C) No owner, occupant, lessee, agent, tenant or other person having charge or the responsibility for any lot or land within the village shall cause or allow garbage, litter, rubbish, used building materials, scrap metals or any other noxious or offensive materials or substances to be collected, stored or allowed to remain upon such lands or lands open to the public which obstructs, impedes, diverts, corrupts or renders unwholesome or impure, any natural watercourse.
(D) (1) No person shall place or dispose of in any manner any garbage, litter, rubbish, used building materials, scrap metal or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature in any ditch, stream, river, lake, pond or other watercourse, except those waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground water, or upon the bank thereof where the same is liable to be washed into the water either by ordinary flow or annual floods.
(2) This division (D) does not apply to any substance placed under authority of a permit issued under R.C. § 6111.04 or exempted by such section from its terms.
(E) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1997 Code, § 131.29) (Ord. 810-90, passed 6-11-1990)