Santa Ana Municipal Code Art. I In General

No person shall place, deposit, dump or stand any paper, cans, bottles, ashtray accumulations, refuse, trash, offal, rubbish, garbage or other filth or offensive matter in or upon any public or private alley or street, or in or upon any public or private property or watercourse within the city, or cause the same to be done, except in such places and in the manner prescribed by the council.

(Code 1952, §§ 3821, 4276; Ord. No. NS-356, § 1, 12-15-58)

Cross reference— Water pollution control, § 18-151 et seq.

State Law reference— Littering rivers and streams, § 374e, Pen. Code; littering parkways, § 888.2 Streets & H. Code.

No person shall sweep, push, propel or deposit or cause to be swept, pushed, propelled or deposited into any gutter or street in the city, the accumulation of paper, metal, foil, dirt, trash or rubbish that accumulates upon public or private sidewalks or parkways.

(Code 1952, § 3822; Ord. No. NS-356, § 1,12-15-58)

No person shall deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast any handbill, dodger, circular, booklet, paper, or other printed matter or advertising in the yard or grounds of any building, or on any porch, doorstep, vestibule, or in any public hallway of any building when said building is not in the possession or under the control of the person so doing, or in any public street or place, or upon any vacant real property in the city.

(Code 1952, § 3823; Ord. No. NS-356, § 1, 12-15-58; Ord. No. NS-982, § 1, 9-15-69)

Amendment note—Ord. No. NS-982, § 1. amended § 3823 of the 1952 Code, § 16-3 herein, by deleting a prohibition against attaching handbills, etc., to a building.

No person shall deposit, place, throw, scatter in or attach to any vehicle, as defined in the vehicle code of the state, other than his own, any handbill, dodger, circular, booklet, paper, or other printed matter or advertising.

(Code 1952, § 3824; Ord. No. NS-356, § 1,12-15-58)

Sections 16-1 through 16-4 shall not be denied to prohibit the distribution of the United States mail, the delivery of any newspaper of the general circulation, as defined in section 6000 of the government code of the state, or the distribution or delivery of printed matter from the hand of the deliverer into the hand of any person willing to receive the same, the purpose of said sections being to prohibit the promiscuous depositing any unwanted material in any public place or upon any private property.

(Code 1952, § 3825; Ord. No. NS-356, § 1, 12-15-58)

Any person violating any provision of section 16-1 through 16-4 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addition shall be guilty of creating a public nuisance, which may be abated as provided in section 18-1.

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-1380, § 1, enacted Jan. 16, 1978, repealed § 16-7 relative to the authority of certain public officers and employees to issue citations. Said section was derived from Ord. No. NS-1085, § 1, adopted Oct. 18, 1971, and Ord. No. NS-1119, § adopted May 15, 1972.