Sec. 32-5. - Depositing cans, dirt and other substances on streets and sidewalks.

No person shall throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited in or upon any street, highway, sidewalk or public place any tin pans or cans, dirt, sweepings, coal, dust, soot, ashes, cinders, shavings, hair, shreds, manure, oyster, clam or lobster shells, or any animal or vegetable matter or substance whatsoever. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as forbidding the placing of sand or other substances on sidewalks encumbered by ice, or the removing of snow from sidewalks at any time as provided in sections 32-8 and 32-9.

(Code 1973, § 23-18; Code 1994, § 34-7)

State Law reference— Littering, G.L. 1956, § 37-15-6.