Riverside County Municipal Code Ch. 9.24 Property Offenses

A. No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, shall place, deposit, throw or dump any trash, garbage, waste, debris or refuse matter on any public or private property whether owned or controlled by the person or not, except where such matter is being temporarily placed in receptacles for later collection and removal.

B. No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, shall place, deposit, throw or dump any rocks, dirt or demolition materials upon any private or public property, without the consent of the owner.

C. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of an infraction or misdemeanor as hereinafter specified. Any such person, firm, partnership, association or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day, or portion thereof, during which any violation of any of the provisions of this section is committed, continued or permitted.

Any such person, firm, partnership, association or corporation convicted of a violation of this section shall be: (1) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a first violation; (2) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00) for a second violation. The third and any additional violations shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or six months in jail, or both.

Notwithstanding the above, a first or subsequent offense may be charged and prosecuted as a misdemeanor. Payment of any penalty in this section shall not relieve any such person, firm, partnership, association or corporation from the responsibility for removing the trash or debris wrongfully deposited.

D. Enforcement of this section may also be as provided for in county Ordinance No. 725.

(Ord. 689.1 §§ 1—4, 1994)