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A. It is unlawful for any person to throw, cast, place in, or cause or permit to be thrown or placed any litter, debris, refuse of any kind, structures or pieces of structures, dead fish or parts thereof, dead animals or parts thereof, timber, logs, piles, boom sticks, lumber, boxes, empty containers, or any article or substances of any kind floating uncontrolled on the water, in any of the waters of the City, upon the shores thereof or in such position that the same may or can be washed into the waters, either by high water, storms, floods or otherwise.

B. All such articles and substances are hereby declared to be public nuisances. Any person causing or permitting such nuisances to be placed as aforesaid shall remove the same and, upon his failure so to do, the same may be removed by the Police Department or Public Works Department. The expense thereof shall be paid by and recoverable from the person creating the nuisance. In all cases such nuisances may be abated in the manner provided by law. The abatement of such public nuisances shall not excuse the person responsible therefor from prosecution hereunder. A violation of this section is a civil infraction punishable by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars. (Ord. 1937 § 30, 1997: Ord. 377 § 25, 1965).