§ 21-4. Depositing mud, dirt or debris on streets and sidewalks.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons who operate or cause to be operated any vehicle used in building or house construction work or any vehicle used to deliver construction material, or any concrete delivery truck, or any piece of machinery used in construction work to permit to be deposited from the wheels, or any other part of such vehicle any excessive amounts of mud, dirt or debris upon the public street or sidewalks without the written prior approval of the city manager or director of public works.

(b)

The term "excessive" amounts of mud, dirt or debris is hereby defined as any amount of mud, dirt or debris on streets or sidewalks which might create hazardous conditions for vehicle or pedestrian traffic. The term "debris" is hereby defined to include leaves and grass clippings from lawn mowers and other rotary mowers. These leaves and/or grass clippings may not be deposited in piles, mounds, or clumps upon any city sidewalk, in the street, or in the curb and gutter area of a street. The discharge of leaves and/or grass clippings from a lawn mower onto the street or sidewalk area is discouraged, but is not an ordinance violation as long as the grass being mowed is not of a heavy and overgrown grass area. Large amounts of grass discharged onto sidewalks or into the curb and gutter area, of an amount determined to be enough to plug city stormwater inlets, is an ordinance violation and may be prosecuted as such.

(Code 1974, § 21-3.1; Ord. No. 12149 , § 5, 3-16-2015)

Cross reference

Garbage, refuse and weeds, Ch. 11.