(A) Any person who knowingly, without the consent of the public authority having supervision of the public property or the owner of private property, shall dump, deposit, place, throw or leave or cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing, throwing or leaving of litter on public or private property or water, other than property designated and set aside for such purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The phrase
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY OR WATER includes but is not limited to the right-of-way of a road or highway, a body of water or watercourse, or the shore or beach thereof, including the ice above the water; a park, playground building, refuge or conservation or recreation area; and residential or farm properties or timberlands.
(B) In addition to the general prohibition against the afore described acts of littering, the following situations and circumstances shall also be prohibited:
(1) Any person who removes a vehicle wrecked or damaged in an accident on a highway, road or street, fails to remove all glass and other injurious substances dropped on the highway, road or street as a result of the accident shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2) Any person who knowingly shall cause any litter or any object to fall or be thrown into the path of or to hit a vehicle traveling upon a highway shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move any car, wagon, truck or other vehicle within the township unless the 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 or private place; and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move any vehicle or truck within the township, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit upon any street, alley or public or private place litter, mud or dirt, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(4) In a proceeding for violation of this act involving littering from a motor vehicle, proof that the particular vehicle described in the citation, complaint or warrant was used in the violation, together with proof that the defendant named in the citation, complaint or warrant was the registered owner of the vehicle at the time of the violation (unless the registered owner is the lessor of a vehicle under a written lease agreement) constitutes in evidence a presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation.
(C) The term
LITTER as used in this section means all rubbish, refuse, waste, material, garbage, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris, ashes, dead animals, solid market and industrial wastes, junk, scrap metal, scrap lumber, discarded building materials, dismantled, partially dismantled or inoperable vehicle or vehicles, abandoned vehicle or any parts, machinery or machinery parts or other foreign substances of every kind and description.
(Ord. 374, passed 1-8-1998) Penalty, see § 132.99