Victorville Municipal Code Ch. 6.44 Littering

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:

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

"Litter" means garbage, refuse, and rubbish as defined in this section and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as set forth in this chapter, tends to create a danger to the public health, safety and welfare.

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

"Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.

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

"Public place" means any and 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 cleaning, 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, glass, 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.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person shall cause any type of litter, as defined in this chapter, including inoperable vehicles, to be deposited, thrown, dumped, dropped off, or accumulate on any occupied private property within the city.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person shall cause any type of litter, as defined in this chapter, to be deposited, thrown, dumped, dropped off, or accumulate upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the city except in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection, or in official disposal sites.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

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.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

Persons owning or occupying places of business within the city shall keep the front of their premises free of litter.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person shall sweep into or deposit into a gutter, or other public place within the city the accumulation of litter, including leaves and similar refuse, from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person shall cause any type of litter, as defined in this chapter, including inoperable vehicles, to be deposited, thrown, dumped, dropped off, or accumulate, on any open or vacant property within the city.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person, in a moving or stopped vehicle, shall deposit, throw or cause to be thrown any type of litter, as defined in this chapter, upon any street or other public place within the city, or upon private property.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person shall cause, any type of litter, as defined in this chapter, to be deposited, thrown, dumped, dropped off in any park within the city except in public receptacles and such litter shall be fully contained in the public receptible so as not to spill out of the receptacle and into the park.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

No person in an aircraft shall cause any litter to be, dropped, thrown, or otherwise deposited within the city, including handbills, flyers or any other similar object.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

Before a business license may be issued for events such as a carnival, circus or similar exhibition, there shall be a fee of five hundred dollars deposited to guarantee that the premises shall be left in a clean, safe and sanitary condition. In the event that such premises are not left in such condition as approved by the collector within two days of the closing of such event, the said sum so deposited shall be forfeited to the city for the purpose of placing such premises in such condition as may be approved by the collector. Should the cost for placing such premises in a clean condition exceed the five hundred dollar deposit, the deposit will be forfeited to the city and the amount exceeding five hundred dollars shall be billed to the event.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

The city manager and his or her designee and all city enforcement officers are empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter and to issue citations or make arrests for violation thereof.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

(a) Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and a fine of one thousand dollars for a first offense in accordance with California Penal Code Section 374.4, and shall be prosecuted by the city attorney.

(b) Any person violating provisions of this Code may be issued an administrative citation by an enforcement officer as provided in sections 1.05.050 through 1.05.070 of this Code.

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)

If any part or provision of this chapter is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, such invalidity shall not affect any other part or provision herein, and all remaining provisions of this chapter will be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law

(Ord. No. 2403, 1-21-20)