Ridgecrest Municipal Code § 10-36 Dropping litter from aircraft

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Ridgecrest Anti-Litter Regulations."

(Code 1980, § 4-2.101; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Aircraft means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The term "aircraft" shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.

Authorized private receptacle means a litter storage and collection receptacle.

Garbage means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

Litter means "garbage," and "rubbish," as defined herein, and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.

Park means a park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the city, owned or used by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation.

Private premises means any dwelling, house, building, or other structure, designated or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building, or other structure.

Public place means all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, and buildings.

Refuse means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.

Rubbish means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, grass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.

Vehicle means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.102; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.120; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the city except in public receptacles, in authorized private receptacles for collection, or in official city dumps.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.103; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place or upon private property.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.104; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the city the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.105; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the city the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying places of business within the city shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business premises free of litter.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.106; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall throw or deposit litter in any such park within the city except in public receptacles and in such a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any part of the park or upon any street or other public place. Where public receptacles are not provided, all such litter shall be carried away from the park by the person responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided herein.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.109; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond, lake, stream, bay or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the city.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.110; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or non-commercial handbill upon any private premises, if requested by anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement," or any similar notice, indicating in any matter that the occupants of said premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed, or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.111; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the city any litter, handbill or any other object.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.113; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

The owner or person in control of any private property shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter. Provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private receptacles for collection.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.114; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private property within the city, whether owned by such person or not.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.115; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any contractor or subcontractor, or owner-builder to permit waste building materials or packaging to accumulate on a construction site in other than a suitable refuse container as defined below or to permit such materials to be carried by the wind off said construction site. Any workman of a contractor or subcontractor whose materials or packaging is found in violation of this section may be cited for its violation.

(b) Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner or agent so notified, to properly dispose of litter dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare within ten days after receipt of written notice provided for above, or within ten days after the date of such notice in the event the same is returned to the city post office department because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner or agent, the city manager is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such litter or to order its disposal by the city.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.116; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

(a) The chief building inspector shall require the building permittee to provide at each construction site suitable containers for the deposit of waste construction materials and shall require that the building permittee shall provide for regular emptying of such containers.

(b) The term "suitable container" means a container with a wind secure lid capable of containing all construction waste likely to accumulate between the times of regular emptying and capable of preventing the wind from blowing the contents out of such container.

(c) Where a construction site is of a size as to require workmen to walk more than 300 feet to deposit construction waste materials in such suitable container, the chief building inspector shall require the permittee to furnish an additional suitable container every 300 feet. Failure to provide for regular emptying shall be cause for the permittee to cease and desist further construction on the site.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.117; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)

Any state peace officer, the chief building inspector and his deputies, and the environmental improvement inspector shall have the authority to issue misdemeanor citations for violation of the provisions of this section.

(Code 1980, § 4-2.118; Ord. No. 89-20, § 2; Ord. No. 90-01, § 2)