1. For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LITTER. Any garbage, refuse, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobile, paper, wrappings, cigarette butts, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, grass, bedding or crockery and similar materials commonly referred to as rubbish or trash.
2. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any open or vacant property within the city, irrespective of the ownership of such property.
3. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place within the city, except in public receptacles, authorized private receptacles or in the municipal sanitary landfill.
4. No person shall sweep into, or deposit in, any gutter, street or other public place within the city, the accumulation of litter from any building or lot, or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway; persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
5. No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the city unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place; nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle or truck within said city, the wheels or tires of which carry onto, or deposit in, any street, alley or other public place, mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign manner of any kind, in excessive or damaging amounts.
6. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill on or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the city.
7. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any vehicle; however, it shall not be unlawful, in any public place, for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
8. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously vacant.
9. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill upon any private premises, if requested not to do so or if signs are posted bearing the words “no trespassing”, “no peddlers or agents”, “no advertisements” or similar notice, indicating that the occupants do not desire to have their privacy disturbed.
10. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by transmitting them directly to the owner, occupant or persons present upon such private premises; in cases of inhabited private premises which are not posted, handbills must be distributed to prevent them from blowing on sidewalks or other public places.
11. The provisions of subsection 10. above shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States or to newspapers, except that newspapers shall be placed on private property so as to prevent being carried or deposited upon any street, sidewalk or public place, or on other private property.
12. No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the city any litter, handbill or any other object.