§ 1-12-4. Depositing refuse upon certain property.

(a)

It is unlawful for any person to deposit litter in or upon any canal, water, waterway, pool or lake, or upon any public property, including but not limited to easements and ditches, road rights-of-way, parks or recreation areas within the county, or upon the property of an owner or tenant in the county after warning by the owner or tenant to desist therefrom. Litter in this section means any garbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, storm debris, construction debris, re-modeling debris, demolition debris, can, bottle, container, paper, lighted or unlighted cigar or cigarette, or flaming or glowing material. It also includes any written material, whether circular, advertiser, newspaper or flyer, deposited without the consent of the owner or tenant upon private property after written notice to the person or entity depositing such material except in authorized U.S. mail receptacles.

(b)

This section shall not apply to the disposal of garbage, refuse, trash or abandoned property collected under the authority of a municipality, an independent special district with the power to collect solid waste, or of a franchise issued by the county, where the method of disposal is being conducted in accordance with the general laws of the state.

(Ord. No. 71-9, §§ 1, 2, 10-8-71; Ord. No. 87-01, § 1, 1-13-87; Ord. No. 2005-066, § 1, 8-9-05; Ord. No. 2017-017, § 1, 4-11-17)

Cross reference

Parks and recreation, Ch. 1-11; roads and bridges, Ch. 3-6.