Revere, MA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)
Key Facts
- Prohibited conduct
- Dumping waste in streets, catch basins, drains
- Maximum penalty
- $300 per offense (Section 1.16.010)
- Continuing violation
- Each day is a separate offense
- Enforcement track
- Noncriminal disposition, Chapter 1.12
- Appeal venue
- Clerk, Chelsea District Court
Summary
Revere bans throwing or placing dirt, filth, garbage, rubbish, shavings, refuse or waste of any kind into any street, public place, catch basin, sewer drain or drainage ditch. Violators face the city's general penalty of up to $300 per offense under Section 1.16.010, with each day a dumping condition continues counted as a separate offense.
Whoever violates a provision of any ordinance, whether of these Revised Ordinances or any other ordinance enacted after the adoption of this revision shall, unless otherwise provided by law or ordinance, be liable to a penalty of not more than three hundred dollars for each offense. ... Except where otherwise specifically provided, each day any violation of any provision of these Revised Ordinances or any other such ordinance continues shall constitute a separate offense. ... No person shall throw or place, or cause to be thrown or placed, in or upon any street or public place, or into any catchbasin of any sewer or drain, or into any drainage ditch in the city, any dirt, filth, garbage, rubbish, shavings, refuse or waste matter of any kind.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4804778; v14 updated 2026-05-04).
Full Breakdown
020's accumulation-of-litter rule. The ordinance reaches dirt, filth, garbage, rubbish, shavings, refuse or waste matter of any kind thrown or placed in or upon any street or public place, or into any catch basin of a sewer or drain, or into any drainage ditch in the city. 010: not more than $300 for each offense, with each day the violation continues treated as a separate offense under subsection B. c. 40, Section 21D, rather than through a criminal complaint. Under that procedure a person cited may confess the offense and pay the assessed sum directly to the city clerk, or may instead appear before the Clerk of the Chelsea District Court to contest the citation; an appearance under Section 21D is not treated as a criminal proceeding and generates no probation record. 010 penalty. 011, with the property owner liable if the enclosure requirement is not met.
Violations & Fines
A first dumping citation under Section 8.04.030 carries the general penalty ceiling of $300 under Section 1.16.010, and every additional day the dumped material remains counts as a new offense, so cost accumulates quickly for anyone who ignores a citation. The city may pursue the charge through the noncriminal disposition track in Chapter 1.12, letting a cited party pay the assessed sum to the city clerk or contest it before the Clerk of the Chelsea District Court.
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