(a) No person shall deposit or leave garbage, waste, putrid substances, junk, waste materials from oil and gas drilling operations, including brine, 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 on private property, any of such material. For purposes of 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, includes junk, waste boxes, cartons, plastic or wood scraps or shavings, 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, paper and rubber. It also includes 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. The word also includes other automobiles or other transportation devices. The word also includes other old scrap and ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale or for remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Director of Public Works and the Director of Public Safety or by either of them.
(c) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008; Ord. 41-11. Passed 10-3-2011.)
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