(1) No person shall throw, deposit, place, leave, maintain, or keep or permit to be thrown, deposited, placed, left, maintained or kept, any refuse, rubbish, garbage, or any other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, or accumulations, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet, catch basin conduit or drainage structure, business place, or upon any public or private plot of land in the city, so that the same might be or become a pollutant, except in containers, recycling bags, or other lawfully established waste disposal facility.
(2) No person shall intentionally dispose of grass, leaves, dirt, or other landscape debris into a water resource buffer, street, road, alley, catch basin, culvert, curb, gutter, inlet, ditch, natural watercourse, wetland, flood control channel, canal, storm drain or any fabricated natural conveyance.
(3) No person shall cause any unlawful discharge to enter the municipal storm water system unless such discharge:
(a) Consists of non-storm water that is authorized by an NPDES point source permit obtained from the MPCA; or
(b) Is associated with firefighting activities.
(4) No person shall use any unlawful connection to intentionally convey non-storm water to the city storm water system.
(Ord. 10-10, passed 9-13-2010)