Chapter 6.08
DUMPING—IN WATERCOURSES AND ON PUBLIC PROPERTY*
Sections:
6.08.010 Definitions.
6.08.020 Dumping in watercourse—Prohibited.
6.08.030 Dumping on public property—Prohibited.
6.08.040 Dumping in proximity to watercourse—Permission required.
6.08.050 Regulations supplemental.
6.08.060 Violation—Penalty.
* For statutory provisions regarding littering and dumping on highways, see Veh. Code §§ 23113; for statutory provisions prohibiting dumping on public property, see Health and Safety Code § 117550 et seq.; for provisions prohibiting littering, see Pen. Code § 374.3.
6.08.010 Definitions.
Whenever used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning indicated.
A. “County health officer” means the health officer of the county of San Mateo.
B. “District engineer” means the engineer of the Estero Municipal Improvement District.
C. “Person” means a natural person, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or public or private corporation, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.
D. “Waste material” means any and all matter whether it is organic, inorganic, combustible or noncombustible.
E. “Watercourse” means any natural or artificial drainage ditch, or lagoon, lake, channel, stream, creek or river which is located within, flows through, originates in or terminates within limits of the district. (Ord. 21 § 1, 1965)
6.08.020 Dumping in watercourse—Prohibited.
No person shall dump or deposit or cause or allow to be dumped or deposited in any watercourse waste material of any nature whatsoever. (Ord. 21 § 2, 1965)
6.08.030 Dumping on public property—Prohibited.
No person shall dump or deposit or cause or allow to be dumped or deposited waste material upon any public property within the limits of the district. (Ord. 21 § 3, 1965)
6.08.040 Dumping in proximity to watercourse—Permission required.
No person shall dump or deposit or cause or allow to be dumped or deposited waste material within twenty feet of the bank or slope of any watercourse without first having obtained written permission of the district engineer, the county health officer and the board of directors of the district. (Ord. 21 § 4, 1965)
6.08.050 Regulations supplemental.
The provisions of this chapter are designed to supplement the provisions of the existing ordinances regulating the collection and disposal of garbage, swill and refuse and waste matter within the limits of the district. The provisions of this chapter are not designed to permit the infraction of any health and safety regulations or the prohibitions of any other ordinance of the district. (Ord. 21 § 5, 1965)
6.08.060 Violation—Penalty.
Any person violating or causing or permitting to be violated any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and each such person, firm or corporation is guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or any portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is committed, continued or permitted; and upon conviction of any such violations, such person, firm or corporation shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 21 § 6, 1965)