(A) For the purposes of this section. OBSTRUCTION shall mean any waste which, if not properly disposed of, creates a danger to public health, safety, and/or welfare, impairs the ability of Dearborn County employees to perform their job functions, and/or impairs the environment of the people of the county. OBSTRUCTION shall include, but is not limited to: vehicles, trailers, watercraft, garbage, trash, refuse, debris, brush, tree trimmings, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, paper products, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers, motor vehicle parts (including tires), furniture, posts, railroad ties, concrete blocks, brick/stone walls, carcasses of dead animals, or any other waste material of an unsightly, unsanitary, nauseous, dangerous, and/or offensive nature.
(B) No person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity in charge of or in control of or in ownership of any obstruction shall cause, allow, or permit said obstruction to be left on the trafficked portions of any county rights-of-way for any length of time.
(C) No person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity in charge of or in control of or in ownership of any obstruction shall cause, allow, or permit said obstruction to block or restrict in any manner an access, driveway, easement, intersection, egress, ingress, sidewalk, or interfere with a county right-of-way, nor impede any government employee in the course of their regular duties, or cause, allow, or permit said obstruction to be left in the non-trafficked portions of county rights-of-way for any length of time.
(D) Police, postal, fire, EMS, and other governmental employees are hereby exempt from this section when in the course of their regular duties.
(BC Ord. 2006-2, passed 4-4-06; Am. B.C. Ord. 2006-3, passed 7- 18-06; Am. BC Ord. 2023-005, passed 4-18-23)
Penalty, see § 70.99