Carmel City Code § 6-49 bars hauling rubbish, ashes, sand, stone or similar materials except in a closed vehicle, and prohibits scattering such material on any street or alley. Statewide, Indiana Code 35-45-3-2 makes littering a Class B infraction (up to $1,000), rising to a Class A infraction near protected waters.
Carmel addresses dumping and scattering of waste through both local code and Indiana state law. Locally, City Code § 6-49 (Littering Prohibited) makes it unlawful to haul 'rubbish, ashes, earth, sand, stone, or other material liable to become scattered' on streets except in a properly closed vehicle, and prohibits scattering such materials from any vehicle on any street or alley. Dumping junk, debris or trash on private property is also reachable through the property maintenance and nuisance provisions of Chapter 6 (for example § 6-77(k), which prohibits accumulations of junk, rubbish and scrap, and § 6-222). At the state level, Indiana Code 35-45-3-2 makes it littering, a Class B infraction, to recklessly, knowingly or intentionally place or leave refuse on another person's property except in a container provided for refuse; 'refuse' includes solid and semisolid wastes, dead animals and offal. The offense rises to a Class A infraction (a judgment up to $1,000) when refuse is left in, on or within 100 feet of certain bodies of water under DNR or U.S. Army Corps jurisdiction, and the statute also addresses littering from a moving vehicle. Carmel Code Enforcement and police can act on illegal dumping; local violations carry civil penalties under § 1-11, while state littering is prosecuted as an infraction. Report dumping to Carmel Code Enforcement or police.
Hauling rubbish, ashes, sand, stone or similar in an open vehicle so it scatters; scattering material on a street or alley (§ 6-49); dumping junk or trash on property (§ 6-77(k), § 6-222); leaving refuse on another's property outside a provided container (IC 35-45-3-2, Class B infraction, or Class A near protected water with judgment up to $1,000).
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