(a) "Solid wastes", for the purpose of this section, means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural and community operations, excluding earth, material from construction, mining or demolition operations and slag and other substances which are not harmful or inimical to public health, but including garbage, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt and debris.
(b) No person shall place or dispose of in any manner any garbage, waste or 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 in any ditch, stream, river, lake, pond or other watercourse or upon the bank thereof where the same is liable to be washed into the water either by ordinary flow or annual floods to the extent that the water quality of the receiving stream is reduced below the current minimum quality as set forth by the State of Ohio Department of Health. Nor shall any such material be disposed of on any property, private or public without a prior permit from the Environmental Control Board.
(c) No zoning commission or other governmental officer, except Council, acting pursuant to the powers granted to it, may authorize the placing or disposal of materials in or upon the banks of a ditch, stream, river or other watercourse after October 15, 1968, where such placing or disposal would be prohibited under the provisions of subsection (b) hereof. Such placing or disposal may be enjoined by the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County upon application by the Environmental Control Officer.
(Ord. 1968-740. Passed 10-1-68.)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.