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Fairfax, CA Municipal Code of Ordinances
FAIRFAX, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE OF ORDINANCES
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 2: ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
TITLE 3: REVENUE AND FINANCE
TITLE 4: RESERVED
TITLE 5: BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
TITLE 6: ANIMALS
TITLE 7: RESERVED
TITLE 8: HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 8.04: CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE
CHAPTER 8.06: INTERNATIONAL WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE CODE
CHAPTER 8.08: SOLID WASTE, RECYCLABLES, AND ORGANIC WASTE
CHAPTER 8.12: LITTER
CHAPTER 8.14: COLLECTION, RECYCLING, AND DISPOSAL OF WASTE GENERATED FROM CONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION, AND RENOVATION PROJECTS
CHAPTER 8.16: POLYSTYRENE FOAM, DEGRADABLE AND RECYCLABLE FOOD PACKAGING
CHAPTER 8.18: PLASTIC BAG REDUCTION
CHAPTER 8.19: PAPER BAG REDUCTION
CHAPTER 8.20: NOISE CONTROL
CHAPTER 8.24: ABATEMENT OF FIRE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH FLAMMABLE VEGETATION AND OTHER MATERIALS
CHAPTER 8.28: WATERCOURSES
CHAPTER 8.32: URBAN RUNOFF POLLUTION PREVENTION
CHAPTER 8.36: TREES
CHAPTER 8.40: WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION
CHAPTER 8.44: CLEAN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR AND HEALTH PROTECTION - SMOKING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 8.48: REGULATORY FEE FOR CLEAN STORM WATER ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER 8.52: PESTICIDES
CHAPTER 8.56: LIVING WAGE FOR CONTRACTORS
CHAPTER 8.60: RECYCLING AREAS REQUIRED FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
CHAPTER 8.64: INSTALLATION OF WOOD-BURNING APPLIANCES, REMOVAL AND OPERATION OF NON-CERTIFIED WOOD-BURNING APPLIANCES
CHAPTER 8.68: SMARTMETERS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 8.72: REUSABLE FOODWARE
CHAPTER 8.74: GASOLINE POWERED LANDSCAPE EQUIPMENT
TITLE 9: PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
TITLE 10: VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
TITLE 11: RESERVED
TITLE 12: STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
TITLE 13: PUBLIC SERVICES
TITLE 14: RESERVED
TITLE 15: BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
TITLE 16: SUBDIVISIONS
TITLE 17: ZONING
TITLE 18: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
TITLE 19: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
CHAPTER 8.12: LITTER
Section
   8.12.010   Definitions
   8.12.020   Deposit in public places
   8.12.030   Prevention of scattering
   8.12.040   Sidewalks; duty of property owners
   8.12.050   Sidewalks; duty of merchants
   8.12.060   Throwing from vehicles prohibited
   8.12.070   Truck loads causing litter
   8.12.080   Parks
   8.12.090   Bodies of water
   8.12.100   Posting notices
   8.12.110   Occupied private property
   8.12.120   Owner to maintain premises free of litter
   8.12.130   Vacant lots
   8.12.140   Notice to property owner to remove litter
   8.12.150   Non-compliance; abatement by town
   8.12.160   Abatement by town; charge added to tax bill
   8.12.170   Prohibition against the release of balloons
§ 8.12.010 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE. A litter storage and collection receptacle as required and authorized in Chapter 8.08 of this title.
   GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
   LITTER. Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined in this section, and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as prohibited in this chapter, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
   PARK. A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the town, owned or used by the town and devoted to active or passive recreation.
   PERSON. A natural person, firm, co- partnership, association or corporation.
   PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to the dwelling, house, building or other structure.
   PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
   REFUSE. All putrescible and non-putrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
   RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, overgrown grass, brush and weeds, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
   TOWN. The Town of Fairfax.
   VEHICLE. A device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 8.12.030)
§ 8.12.020 DEPOSIT IN PUBLIC PLACES.
   No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the town, except in public receptacles, in authorized private receptacles for collection or in official town dumps.
(Prior Code, § 8.12.031)
§ 8.12.030 PREVENTION OF SCATTERING.
   Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
(Prior Code, § 8.12.032)
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