(a) No person shall deposit or leave garbage, waste, putrid substances, junk or other waste material on any public street or any other public property or in any pond or watercourse; nor shall any person who is the owner, occupant or person in possession of any property within the City deposit, permit to remain or permit any other person to deposit, any of such material on private property. As used in this section:
(1) “Waste material" means any material which has been discarded or abandoned, or any material no longer in use, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, including but not limited to, junk, waste boxes, cartons, plastic or wood scraps or shavings, shingles/roofing materials, landscaping waste, waste paper and paper products and other combustible materials or substances no longer in use or discarded or abandoned, metal or ceramic scraps or pieces of all types, glass and other noncombustible materials or substances no longer in use or discarded or abandoned, and machinery, appliances or equipment, or parts thereof, no longer in use or discarded or abandoned.
(2) “Junk" includes old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, automotive tires, paper and rubber. It also includes abandoned, inoperable, partially dismantled or wrecked vehicles of any kind, whether motor vehicles, automobiles, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, public safety vehicles, school buses, bicycles, commercial tractors, agricultural tractors, house trailers, trucks, buses, trailers, semitrailers, railroad trains, railroad cars, watercraft or any other form of device for the transportation of persons or property, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to any automobile or other transportation device of any kind the operation of which requires issuance of a license by the Federal Government or any agency thereof or by the State or any agency or political subdivision thereof, any such automobile or other transportation device shall be deemed to be junk unless a current valid license has been issued for the operation of such automobile or other transportation device, which license, if required by law, is displayed upon such automobile or other transportation device. "Junk" also includes other automobiles, other transportation devices and other old scrap and ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale or for re-melting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials.
(b) This section shall be enforced by the Service Director, Building Commissioner, or the Police Department.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for a first offense, and not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for a second or subsequent offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 33-2012. Passed 6-10-12.)