(A) Deposit of Dead Animals, Offal, Etc., Upon Land or Water. No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or the offal from a slaughterhouse, butcher’s establishment, packing house or fish house, or spoiled meat, spoiled fish or other putrid substance, or the contents of a privy vault, upon or into a lake, river, bay, creek, pond, canal, road, street, alley, lot, field, meadow, public ground, market place or
common. No owner or occupant of any premises shall knowingly permit the aforementioned substances to remain therein or neglect to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within twenty-four hours after knowledge of the existence thereof or after notice thereof in writing from the Director of Public Safety.
(B) Littering.
(1) No person shall place or dispose of in any manner any garbage, waste, peelings of vegetables or fruits, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, parts of automobiles, wagons, furniture, glass, oil or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature along, near or on any public road, street, parkway, park drive, highway or ditch, or land adjoining any public road or highway or ditch, and/or on private property not owned by said person or upon which consent has not been given by the owner thereof, except on land provided for such purpose by city ordinance or other governmental authority, unless directed to do so by a public official on special clean-up days.
(2) The Director of Public Service shall place or cause to be placed suitable signs along the highways and streets which indicate “No Littering” and the penalty therefore.
(Ord. 30-90, passed 4-16-1990)