(a) General Restrictions. No person shall drop, cast, sweep, deposit, discard, or otherwise dispose of any litter in or upon any exterior public or exterior private property within the County including but not restricted to any street, sidewalk, park, body of water, or vacant or occupied lot, except by placement in a proper receptacle or in an area designated and approved by the County as a permitted disposal site.
(b) Rebuttable Presumption. When a violation of the provisions of this section has been observed by any person, and the litter has been ejected or removed from a motor vehicle, the owner or operator of such motor vehicle shall be presumed to be the person ejecting or disposing of such litter, provided however, that such presumption shall be rebuttable by competent evidence.
(c) Ownership Inference. In a prosecution for violation of this section, evidence that litter was found upon a road, street, or other public property and that such litter contained articles of mail or other documents on which appear the name and address of a person and that such articles or documents were found distributed throughout such litter shall be prima facie evidence that the litter is the property of the person whose name and address appear on such articles or documents and that such person disposed of the same in violation of this section, provided however, that such presumption shall be rebuttable by competent evidence.
(Ord. 04-17. Passed 12-14-04.)