HomeMy WebLinkAbout1953-11-17; City Council; 5010; Prohibit dump/deposit of trash, rubbish, refuse, etc. on public/private propertyORDINANCE NO. SO10
AN OEiDINANCE 0% THE CITY OF CAEXLSBAD PROHIBITING TEE
DUPE'Xm OR DEPOSITING OF TRASH, RUBBISH, REFUSE, EIVfPTY %
CANS, ENPTY BOTTLES, BZOKEN GLASS, OR OTHER WASTE HAT-
TER OR INFLAMABLE SUBSTANCE UPON ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVAm
PROPERTY WI'GHIN THE CITY.
The City Council of the City of Carlsbad does hereby ordain as
I" - follows :
SECTION 1, DWIMITION OF RUBBISH OR WASTE MATERIAL. 'ITrashn for
the purpose of this Ordinance shall mean empty or broken bottles or glass,
cans, paper, wood scraps, brush, plant trimmings, garbage, lawn trimmings,
or any discarded material and combustible material.
SECTION 2, It shall be and is hereby declared unlawful for i any
person, persons or corporations to deposit any trash upon any beackr;
street, parkway, alley, park, or public place in said City of Carlsbad.
SECTION 3& It shall be and is hereby declared unlawful for any
person, persons or corporations to deposit or dump any trash upon any
vacant lots or unoccupied premises within the said City of Carlsbaa
with OF without the owner's consent.
SECTION 4; The existence of any trash upon any private property
in the City of Carlsbad is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
SECTION 5, The Public Works DiPector of the City of Carlsbad is
hereby authorized and- empowered to abate any public nuisance as defined
in Section 4 above.
notice to remove any trash that constitutes a public nulsanrce as above
defined to the owner upon whose property the public nuisance exists.
The owner of' the property shall, within ten (10) days after receipt of
said notice, remove all trash that constitutes the public nuisance.
The Public Works Director shall give a ten day
In the event the owner shall not so remove the trash as requested by
the Public Works Director, then the Public Works Director is hereby
authorized and empowered to have said trash removed and to submit to
the owner of the premises a bill for the costs of such removal,
SECTION 6, Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail provided. by the City of
Carlsbad for not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine of not to exceed
Five Hundped ($500,00) Dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine.
SECTION 7, This Ordinance shall take effect and be In force on
the thirty-first day from and after its final passage.
SECTIOfS 8, !€!he City Clerk of the City of Carlsbad is hereby
directed to cause this Ordinance to be published once in the Carlsbad
Journal, a newspaper published and of general circulation in said City
of Carlsbad.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of sa'fd City
held on the 3rd day of November, 1953, and finally adopted and ordered
published at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 17th day of
November, 1953, by the following vote:
AXES :
WS: ikme.
Councilma Sutton, Ede, Castorena, Chase, Ikyor McClellaxl.
AE3SENT: A'ment.
Mayor of the City of Carlsbad, California
ATTEST:
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