§ 11-22. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:

Court shall mean any Justice of the Peace Court in the Parish of Plaquemines and/or any Division of the 25th Judicial Court for the Parish of Plaquemines.

Dispose shall mean, in any way whatsoever, to throw, discard, place, deposit, discharge, burn, dump, drop, eject, or allow the escape of a substance.

Litter shall mean all waste material except as provided and defined in LA-R.S. 30:2173(2), including but not limited to disposable packages, containers, sand, gravel, rubbish, cans, bottles, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals, furniture or appliances, automotive parts, including but not limited to, tires and engines, trailers, boats, and boating accessories, tools and equipment, and building material, or discarded materials of any kind and description. Litter shall not include agricultural products that are being transported from the harvest or collection site to a processing or market site if reasonable measures are taken to prevent the agricultural product from leaving the transporting vehicles. Litter also shall not include recyclable cardboard being transported in compressed bundles to processing facilities. "Agricultural product", as used in this definition, means all crops, livestock, poultry, and forestry; and all aquacultural, floricultural, horticultural, silvicultural and viticultural products.

Local governing authority shall mean the Plaquemines Parish Council.

Parish shall mean the jurisdictional area where the offense was committed, including but not limited to the jurisdictional boundaries of the Parish of Plaquemines and all its waterways.

Public or private property means the right-of-way of any road or highway, levee, any body of water or watercourse or the shores or beaches thereof, any park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or recreation area, and residential or farm properties, timberlands, or forests.

Gender shall be the use of him, her, his hers, its; such words are understood to be interchangeable.

(Ord. No. 03-78, § B, 5-22-03)