No person who owns or is in possession or control of land the soil of which, by virtue of its character and the presence in the area of strong prevailing winds, seasonal or otherwise, is likely, if the surface thereof is disturbed, to be eroded by wind and blown onto a public road or roads or other public or private property in the vicinity of such land, shall disturb the surface of such land by excavating, leveling, cultivating, plowing, removal of natural or planted vegetation or root crops, or by depositing or spreading material or other substance on such land, or by any other act likely to cause or contribute to wind erosion of such land or material placed thereon or to aggravate an existing wind erosion condition thereon, without providing sufficient protection at or prior to the time of so disturbing the surface of such land or without thereafter continuously maintaining the same or equivalent protection, so as to prevent the soil or such land from being eroded by wind or blown onto a public road or roads or other public or private property. Such protection shall be provided by means of windbreaks, walls, fences, planting and maintaining vegetation, covering the land, applying water or other material or other effective methods or combination of methods of holding the soil in place.
('61 Code, § 17A.1) (Ord. 438, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 155.99