(a) (1) No person shall throw, drop, pour, deposit or, having done so, permit to remain, in or on any public street or highway or public ground, any nail, tack, glass, crockery, scrap iron, tin, wire, bottle, thorn, clipping or any other article or thing likely to injure the feet of any person or animal or the tire of any vehicle.
(2) No person shall throw or cause to be deposited, or permit to be thrown or deposited, dirt, debris or offal in or upon any street, lane, alley, tree lawn or any other public ground or the premises of another. This provision shall not apply to fill dirt, top soil or similar dirt which is deposited in connection with the construction, grading or seeding of any premises.
(3) The provisions of this division (a) shall apply to debris or mud deposited from tires of vehicles as well as leaking loads.
(b) No person shall dump, throw or cast any material upon the property of any other person without permission. No person shall dump any refuse, rubbish, manure or garbage of any property in the city unless a permit is obtained from the Mayor to do so, in which permit the conditions controlling such dumping are set forth, except for reasonable fertilization purposes in connection with the immediate planting or landscaping or crops. If planting is delayed, a permit shall be obtained from the Mayor even for fertilization purposes.
(c) No person shall dump or deposit any leaves, grass clippings, brush or wood debris in such a way that it obstructs a waterway or sewer system within any public street or sidewalk except on the tree lawn between the sidewalk and the curb.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(1964 Code, § 521.14)