2015 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 17. REFUSE AND GARBAGE
§ 1704 Dumping refuse or other material upon property; penalty.

16 DE Code § 1704 (2015) What's This?

(a) No person, by agent or otherwise, shall cast, throw, fell or deposit or in any manner cause to be felled or deposited on or upon any public or private real property anywhere in this State, without first obtaining the consent of the legal owner or custodian of such property or premises first obtained for that purpose in the case of private property or from the legal authority having control, management or administration thereof in the case of such public property, any refuse, debris, waste, dirt, trash, brush, tree or part thereof, offal or any other material, matter or substance of any kind whatsoever. No such refuse, etc., shall be dumped or deposited within 50 feet of any highway, whether or not the consent required has been obtained, except where any authorized dumping is to fill a low place to a level not higher than the adjacent roadway shoulder and a sign has been erected designating such place for dumping.

(b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not less than $15 nor more than $100.

20 Del. Laws, c. 123; Code 1915, § 3488; Code 1935, § 3963; 47 Del. Laws, c. 127, § 1; 16 Del. C. 1953, § 1704.;

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