(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, or any employee thereof, to sweep or deposit, or cause to be swept or deposited, upon any public street, sidewalk or other public place in the urban county, any paper, scraps, house or store sweepings, garbage, meats, melons, fruits or vegetable matter of any kind or any other trash or matter which may tend to clog up the gutters or dirty the streets, sidewalks and public places; or to burn any paper, straw or other material on any street or sidewalk of the urban county; or to sweep or clean, or cause to be swept or cleaned, between the hours of 6:30 a.m., prevailing time, and 4:30 p.m., prevailing time, any sidewalk within the territory bounded on the north by Short Street, on the west by Jefferson Street, on the south by Vine Street and on the east by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway crossings at Midland Boulevard and Main Street, and including both sides of the portions of such streets constituting such boundary lines.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the sweeping of ordinary street dust from the sidewalks into the street except during the hours and within the territory described in subsection (a).
(c) Any violation of any provision of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than three dollars ($3.00) nor more than ten dollars ($10.00) for each offense; and each day any material is allowed to remain on any street, sidewalk or other public place contrary to the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate offense.
Cross reference(s)—Waste declared a nuisance, § 16-76.