(A) Unlawful. Littering is unlawful in the following areas:
(1) Any street or road side; and
(2) Public property, federally-, state-, county- or town-owned.
(B) Private responsibility. The owner or the occupant of any premises within the town shall be responsible for sanitary conditions of the premises occupied by him or her, and it will be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or allow to be placed or deposited on his or her premises any solid waste, except as designated by the terms of this subchapter.
(C) Citizen responsibility. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit solid waste on any property except at a state-approved solid waste disposal site.
(1) Owners of property within the town shall remove therefrom any and all trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other substance which might endanger the health or safety of other residents of the town or, whoever the responsible authority deems it necessary, after reasonable notice, have such trash, refuse and litter and other like substances likely to endanger the health of other residents of the town removed by its own agents or employees, in which event the cost or expense thereafter shall be chargeable to and paid by the owner of such property and may be collected by the town as taxes and levies are collected.
(2) The owners of vacant lots or land within the town shall cut the grass, weeds and other growth on such property or any part thereof at such time or times as the responsible authority shall prescribe or may, whenever the town deems it necessary after reasonable notice, have such grass, weeds or other growth cut by the agents or employees of the town, in which event the cost and expense thereof shall be chargeable to and paid by the owner of such property and may be collected by the town as taxes and levies are collected.
(D) Inert waste collected. Inert waste as defined in § 50.01 shall be collected from time to time on separate collection days only in accordance with special requirements which may from time to time be promulgated by the responsible authority. No additional service fee shall be imposed for the scheduled collection of inert waste.
(1996 Code, § 135-5) Penalty, see § 10.99