(A) No person shall litter from any motor vehicle or otherwise dump, deposit, drop, throw, discard, leave, cause or permit the dumping, depositing, dropping, throwing, discarding or leaving of litter upon any public or private property or upon or into any river, lake, pond or other stream of body of water in the county, unless:
(1) The property is duly licensed by the county as a refuse disposal area; or
(2) The litter is placed into a receptacle or other container intended by the owner or tenant, in lawful possession of that property for the deposit of litter; or
(3) The act is done by or under the personal direction of the owner or tenant in lawful possession of that property and does not create a public health or safety hazard, public nuisance or fire hazard;
(4) The person is acting under the direction of proper public officials on a special clean-up day; or
(5) The person is lawfully acting or re-acting to an emergency situation where health and safety is threatened and removes and properly disposes of such litter when the emergency no longer exists.
(B) No person shall transport by any means any refuse to and deposit such material in, around or on top of trash barrels or other receptacles placed along public highways or at roadside rest areas.
(C) No person shall allow litter to accumulate upon real property owned by or in the control of that person as owner or tenant, in such manner that the litter may be blown or otherwise carried by the natural elements onto real property of the public or another person.
(D) Whenever litter is thrown, deposited, dropped or dumped from a motor vehicle not carrying passengers for hire, in violation of this chapter, the rebuttable presumption is created that the operator of the motor vehicle has violated this chapter by littering.
(Ord. O-25-11-92, passed 11-10-1992; Ord. O-59-4-13-06, passed 4-13-2006; Ord. O-80-12-09, passed 12-10-2009; Ord. O-105-7-13, passed 7-11-2013) Penalty, see § 90.99