ORDINANCE NO. 10

LITTERING

AN ORDINANCE TO DEFINE, CONTROL AND PROHIBIT THE LITTERING OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY AND WATERS AND TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE.

THE VILLAGE OF DEERFIELD ORDAINS:

Section 1. LITTERING AND DUMPING PROHIBITED

It is unlawful for any person knowingly, without the consent to the public authority having supervision of public property or the owner of private property to dump, deposit, place, throw or leave, or cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing, throwing or leaving of litter on any public or private property, or waters, other than property designated and set aside for such purposes. The phrase "public or private property or waters" includes, but is not limited to, the right of way of any road or highway, any body of water or watercourse, or the shores or beaches thereof and including the ice above such waters; any park, playground, building, refuge or conservation or recreational area; and any residential or farm properties or timberlands.

Section 2. DEFINITIONS

The term "litter" as used herein means all rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris or other foreign substances of ever kind and nature.

Section 3. PENALTIES

Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars and costs of prosecution or by imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment. The Court, in lieu of any other sentence imposed, may direct a substitution of litter gathering labor, including, but not limited to, the litter connected with the particular violation, under the supervision of the Court.

Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE

This Ordinance shall take effect 20 days after its passage.

Dated: November 4, 1968

Deerfield Village President

CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an Ordinance adopted by the Village of Deerfield at a regular meeting held on the 4th day of November, 1968.

CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION

I, _______________________, Clerk of the Village of Deerfield, hereby certify that the above Ordinance was posted in three public places in the Village of Deerfield.

Deerfield Village Clerk