(a) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street, or alley any tack, bottle, wire, glass, nail or other article which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon the highway except those substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(b) Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
(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 the vehicle.
(d) No commercial contractor, subcontractor, agent or employee of either shall operate any vehicle so as to initially deposit or drop mud, stones, gravel or other similar material on any street, highway or other public place.
(e) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits mud, stones, gravel or other similar material or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited upon a street, highway or other public place to immediately remove the same, upon the order of the Service Department or any sworn police officer of the City, or cause it to be removed.
(Ord. 1989-285. Passed 9-28-89.)
(f) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.