CHAPTER 9
LITTERING

SECTION:

5-9-1: Definitions

5-9-2: Litter In Public Places

5-9-3: Placement In Receptacle To Prevent Scattering

5-9-4: Sweeping Litter Into Gutters Prohibited

5-9-5: Merchants Duty To Keep Sidewalks Clean

5-9-6: Litter Thrown By Persons In Vehicles

5-9-7: Truck Loads Causing Litter

5-9-8: Litter In Parks

5-9-9: Litter In Lakes And Fountains

5-9-10: Dropping Litter From Aircraft

5-9-11: Litter On Occupied Private Property

5-9-12: Littering Public Parking Facilities

5-9-13: Owner To Maintain Premises Free Of Litter

5-9-14: Litter On Vacant Lots

5-9-15: Clearing Of Litter From Private Property By City

5-9-16: Penalty

5-9-1: DEFINITIONS:

For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the meanings given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.

DEBRIS: The remains, fragments, pieces or parts of something broken down, damaged or destroyed.

GARBAGE: Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

LITTER: "Garbage", "refuse" and "rubbish", as defined in this section, and junk and all other waste or discarded materials and substances, including, but not excluding by enumeration, paper, bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, cans, wire (barbed or otherwise), building materials (lumber, boards, plasterboard, mortar, insulation, sheet metal, plumbing materials and fixtures, electrical materials and fixtures, water and gas materials and fixtures, sand and gravel, and roofing and siding materials), automobile bodies, including the parts and components thereof, and tires.

PARK: A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any other public area in the City owned or used by the City and devoted to active or passive recreation.

PERSON: Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.

PRIVATE PREMISES: Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps or mailbox belonging or pertinent to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.

PUBLIC PLACE: Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, easements and buildings.

REFUSE: All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body waste), including garbage, rubbish, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, junk, and solid market and industrial waste.

RUBBISH: Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible waste, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and other similar materials.

VEHICLE: Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved solely by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (1952 Code § 6-16-01)

5-9-2: LITTER IN PUBLIC PLACES:

It shall be unlawful for any person, in person or by his agent, employee or servant, to cast, throw, sweep, sift, deposit, place, leave or dump in any manner any debris, garbage, litter, rubbish and refuse, or cause, permit or allow such debris, garbage, litter, rubbish and refuse to be carried, blown, scattered or deposited by the elements, in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place, river, canal, public water, drain, sewer or receiving basin within the corporate limits of the City. (1952 Code § 6-16-02)

5-9-3: PLACEMENT IN RECEPTACLE TO PREVENT SCATTERING:

Persons placing debris, garbage, litter, rubbish or refuse in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being blown, carried, scattered or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place, or upon private property. (1952 Code § 6-16-03)