Lee's Summit, MO Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

City Code § 26-4 targets two related problems on public streets and property. First, subsection B bars anyone from depositing, spilling, dropping or tracking dirt, earth, mud, rock, sand, shale, debris, rubbish or other material onto any street in the City, and it puts the cleanup duty squarely on the building permit holder: the permit holder, along with its employees, agents and contractors, must remove any such material their construction site deposits, spills, drops or tracks onto the street. Second, subsection C is a broader dumping ban: no person may dump or deposit, or cause to be dumped or deposited, dirt, earth, mud, rock, sand, shale, building material, debris or rubbish or any other material on any public property or street of the City except under a permit issued by the City.

The section carves out one exception in subsection A: crews performing public work such as street grading or public improvements may stage necessary materials at locations the City Engineer designates, without running afoul of the dumping ban. Section 26-4 cross-references related provisions elsewhere in the Code, including the ban on littering generally (§ 17-89), the rules on transporting materials from grading or excavation (§ 25-147), and the rules on transporting and disposing of demolition and construction wastes (§ 25-148), so a construction hauler moving fill or debris through the City is bound by more than just this one section.

Because § 26-4 does not set out its own fine schedule, a violation defaults to the citywide general penalty in Section 1-13: a fine of up to $500, up to 90 days in jail, or both, and each day the material remains constitutes a separate offense.