(A) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street, alley or public lot any litter, tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails, oil, gasoline, vehicular coolants or other materials that may damage or injure any person, vehicle, or animal traveling along or upon the same, except such substances that may be placed there by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(B) No person, with intent to cause physical harm to a person or a vehicle, shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street, alley or public lot any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles that may damage or injure any person, vehicle, or animal traveling along or upon such highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(C) Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle.
(D) No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a highway without proper authority.
(E) Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
(F) No operator or occupant of a motor vehicle shall, regardless of intent, throw, drop, discard, or deposit litter from any motor vehicle in operation upon any street, road, or highway, except into a litter receptacle in a manner that prevents its being carried away or deposited by the elements.
(G) No operator of a motor vehicle in operation upon any street, road, or highway shall allow litter to be thrown, dropped, discarded, or deposited from the motor vehicle, except into a litter receptacle in a manner that prevents its being carried away or deposited by the elements.
(H) As used in this section,
LITTER means garbage, trash, waste, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, automobile parts, furniture, glass, oil, gasoline, vehicular coolants,or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature.
(I) Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates any other division of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 60 days, or both, for each offense.
('91 Code, § 72.102, 72.108) (Ord. 1901-1954, passed 1-21-54; Am. Ord. 04-3177, passed 7-15-04)