A. No person shall throw or deposit upon a highway any trash, glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, wire or cans.
B. A person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material or trash shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
C. A person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from the vehicle.
D. As used in this section, "trash" means any article or substance that when discarded creates or contributes to an unsanitary, offensive or unsightly condition. "Trash" includes waste food; paper products; cans, bottles and other containers; household furnishings and equipment; parts or bodies of vehicles and other metallic junk or scrap; and collections of ashes, dirt, yard trimmings and other rubbish.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-364, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 468; 2000, ch. 22, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2000 amendment, effective July 1, 2000, in the section heading, substituted "injurious" for "glass or other" and inserted "or trash"; in Subsection A, substituted "deposit upon a highway any trash, glass bottles" for "deposit upon any highway any glass bottle" and deleted "or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or vehicle upon such highway" from the end of the sentence; in Subsection B, substituted "A" for "Any" and inserted "or trash"; and added Subsection D.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 60A C.J.S. Motor Vehicles §§ 348, 349.