(a) No person shall dump, store or deposit or cause to be dumped, stored or deposited, on any publicly-owned property, or private property or water, within the City any solid waste, medical waste or hazardous waste, except at a waste disposal or storage facility for which a permit or operating license has been properly issued pursuant to the provisions of this Code and of other local, state and federal law. Such dumping, storing, or depositing without a permit is declared to be a blight violation. In accordance with Section 42-1-42 of this Code, a police officer may impound a vehicle that is operated in the commission of a blight violation.
(b) Dumping, depositing, or placing solid waste less than five cubic yards on any private property, public property, right-of-way or surface water or around any approved or portable container is hereby deemed unlawful and subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter.
(c) Unless otherwise provided for in this division, dumping, storing, depositing of solid waste in an amount of five cubic yards or more on any private property, public property, right-of-way or surface water or around any approved or portable container is illegal dumping and is hereby deemed unlawful and subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter.
(d) Dumping, or depositing solid waste in any discernible quantity from any motor vehicle upon any public highway, city street, public or private property or water or causing such solid waste to be dumped or deposited from a motor vehicle is illegal dumping, and is hereby deemed unlawful and subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter. Proof that the particular vehicle described in the blight violation was used to dump or deposit solid waste gives rise to a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation.
(e) Dumping, storing, depositing or placing medical waste or hazardous waste in any discernible quantity on any private property, public property, right-of-way or surface water or around any approved or potable container is illegal dumping and is hereby deemed unlawful and is subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter.
(f) Dumping or depositing medical or hazardous waste in any discernible quantity from any motor vehicle upon any public highway, city street, public or private property or water or causing such solid waste to be dumped or deposited from any motor vehicle is illegal dumping and is hereby deemed unlawful and is subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter.
(g) Unless otherwise provided for in this chapter, dumping, storing, depositing, or transporting bulk solid material on any private property, public property, right of way, or surface water or around any approved or portable container is illegal dumping and is a blight violation subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter. Asphalt millings removed as part of a public paving or repaving project (a project conducted, controlled or funded by the governments or agencies of the City of Detroit, the County of Wayne, the State of Michigan, or the United States) and temporarily stored on or adjacent to that project for reuse in that project is not illegal dumping if the temporary storage period does not exceed 45 days.
(h) Violations of Article II of this chapter not described by Section 42-2-92(g), including but not limited to the escape of fugitive dust from an otherwise authorized collection of bulk solid material in an amount that exceeds the opacity limit specified in MCL 324.5524(2), regardless of qualification under MCL 324.5524(1), is unlawful and is subject to the fines and penalties provided for in this chapter.
Amended by Ord. No. 22-19 (JCC. 6/18/19, Pass. 7/2/19, App. 7/9/19, Pub. 7/31/19, Eff. 7/31/19); Saved From Repeal by Ord. No. 28-19 (JCC. 7/23/19, Pass. 9/10/19, App. 9/11/19, Pub. 9/20/19, Eff. 10/1/19).