It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or permit to remain outside any dwelling, building or other structure or within any unoccupied or abandoned dwelling, building or other structure under his or her control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid, which may not be released from the inside and having an interior space large enough to permit a child or other person to be locked or entrapped therein, without first removing the door or lid therefrom; or, being the owner, tenant, occupant, manager or person in control of the place where such ice box, refrigerator or other container has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of, to knowingly permit such discarded, abandoned or unattended ice box, refrigerator or other container to remain on premises owned, leased, occupied, managed or controlled by him or her without removing its door or lid so as to make such container unusable or ineffective, as set forth above.
(1991 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. passed 10-16-1958) Penalty, see § 130.999
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Requiring doors to be removed from abandoned appliances, and penalty for violation, see W.Va. Code § 61-2-26