9.11.030 Prohibited conduct | Bellevue City Code

9.11.030 Prohibited conduct.

A. Deposit in Public Places. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place within the city except in litter receptacles or in official county transfer stations.

B. Deposit on Private Property. No person shall throw or deposit litter on any private property within the city, whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of the private property may maintain private receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements onto any street, sidewalk or other public place or onto any other private property.

C. Deposit in Parks. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the city except in litter receptacles and in such a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements onto any part of the park or onto any street or other public place. Where litter receptacles are not provided, all such litter shall be carried away and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided in this chapter.

D. Deposit in Water. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond, lake, stream, bay or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the city.

E. Throwing from Vehicles. No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter upon any street or other public place or upon private property within the city.

F. Litter from Vehicle. No person shall drive or move any vehicle within the city unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place or private property. Any person owning or operating a vehicle from which any litter has fallen or escaped, which would constitute an obstruction or damage to a vehicle or otherwise endanger travel upon such public street, shall immediately cause such public street to be cleaned of all such litter or other objects and shall pay any cost thereof.

1. No individual or person in charge of a construction site in the city shall cause or allow any litter from the site to be deposited by the elements or otherwise upon any adjacent public or private property. During such time as the construction site is not actually being used, all litter shall be stored or deposited in containers or receptacles in such a manner as to prevent the litter from being deposited upon adjacent property by the elements or otherwise.

2. No person in charge of any construction site in the city shall cause or allow any mud, dirt, sticky substances, road surfacing materials or other litter from said construction site to be deposited by any vehicles, the wheels or tires of any vehicles, the elements or otherwise upon any street, alley or other public place; provided, however, if a construction site and adjacent public streets and sidewalks are maintained under a clean-up program approved by the department of public works, then this paragraph shall not apply.

H. Sweeping into Gutters. No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, stormwater drain, street or other public place within the city, an accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying any real property within the city shall keep the sidewalk in front of or adjacent to said property free of litter.

I. Dropping Litter or Handbills from Aircraft. No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the city any litter, handbill or any other object.

1. Depositing in Public. No person shall throw, deposit, or post any handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the city; provided, however, this section shall not prohibit the posting of commercial or noncommercial bills on posting boards designated for such purposes; and provided further, this section shall not apply to political signs as permitted pursuant to BCC 22B.10.120(E).

2. Placing on Vehicles. No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any vehicle without the permission of the owner of such vehicle; provided, however, that it is not unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute a handbill without charge to the receiver thereof.

3. Deposit on Vacant Property. No person shall throw, deposit, post or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any private property which is temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.

4. Distribution on Posted Premises. No person shall throw, deposit, post or distribute any handbill upon any private property if requested by the owner or person in control of such property to refrain from doing so or if there is placed on the property in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing the words “No Trespassing,” “No Peddlers or Agents,” “No Advertisement,” or any similar notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of the premises do not desire to have any such handbills left upon such premises; provided, however, that in case of inhabited private premises which are not posted as provided in this section, such person, unless requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited private premises, in such a manner as to prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets or other public places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations; provided further, that this chapter shall not be construed to permit solicitation as prohibited by BCC 10.12.140. (Ord. 4818 § 21, 1995; Ord. 2687 § 1, 1979.)