No person shall operate a vehicle or, being the owner or in charge thereof, permit it to be operated, or allow it to stand, upon any public highway, from which vehicle the load or any portion thereof, or any mud, dirt, oil or grease adhering thereto, falls, sifts, leaks or in any other manner is discharged upon the surface of such highway, except that sand, salt or other substance may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a highway in cleaning or maintaining such highway. Discharging or depositing of snow by truck, plow, blower or other snow removal equipment into the roadway is prohibited except for accumulations which are the necessary residuals of street or roadway cleaning operations by public authority.
Any person, being the operator of the owner or in charge of any vehicle from which such substance has fallen, sifted, leaked or been discharged upon the surface of a public highway in violation of the preceding paragraph shall, on the direction of any member of the Police, Fire or Service Department of the City, immediately remove such substance from the highway.
No owner of property, person in possession of, or contractor performing work on, any property from which trucks or other vehicles enter any public street within the City, shall cause or permit any such truck or other vehicle to enter a public street in such a manner or condition as to deposit mud, dirt or other material from the wheels or load of such vehicle upon any public street. Such owner, person in possession or contractor shall maintain a slag driveway on the property from the paved public street to all points between such pavement and areas where vehicles will drive on the premises. Such driveway shall have a sufficient amount of slag to prevent mud, dirt, oil, grease or any other substance from being carried onto paved roadways.
(Ord. 67-28. Passed 3-20-67; Ord. 77-10. Passed 1-17-77.)