(A) (1) General prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, keep or maintain on any sidewalk, street, alley or public way, any wood, coal, lime, sand, brick, stone, lumber or anything whatever, except as herein provided.
(2) Removal of materials. Any person engaged in doing or causing to be done any construction or demolition work which makes it necessary for or results in bricks, stone, dirt, sand, gravel, vessels or other litter or matter to be placed or to fall in or on any street, alley, sidewalk or public way in the city, shall remove these materials together with all litter or other substance or refuse matter remaining after the work is completed within three days after the completion of the work. The owner of any building or structure of any kind destroyed in whole or in part by fire, windstorm or other involuntary cause shall, within six days after the event causing the destruction, remove or cause to be removed all debris resulting therefrom lying on any street, alleys, sidewalk or public way in the city.
(3) Dumping or spilling debris on streets. No person shall dump, spill, deposit or track any foreign matter on any public way in the city. Any person who violates this provision shall be liable to the city for the cost of moving such foreign matter from the public way. The provisions of this division (A)(3) shall not apply to any person who has complied with the provisions of division (A)(2) above.
(4) Disintegrating substances on streets. No person shall place or cause to be placed any lime, mortar or any disintegrating substance on any asphalt street within the city so that it will come in contact with the asphalt surface thereof.
(5) Heavy substances on pavements. No person shall place or cause to be placed on an asphalt pavement in the city, heavy rocks, timber, metals or other heavy substances by which the surface of the pavement may be defaced or injured.
(6) Injurious matter on streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, throw or deposit on any street any glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, wires, cans, or any other substances likely to injure any person, animal or vehicle.
(B) Violations of division (A) above involving matter in an amount less than or equal to the capacity of a standard 20-gallon container shall constitute littering; violations involving substances in greater amounts shall constitute dumping.
(C) No provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to waive any requirement imposed by applicable city policies regarding the operations of a public utility on a street or in the right-of-way.
(1984 Code, § 96.11) (Ord. O-04-20, passed 1-28-2020) Penalty, see § 96.999