§ 35-10-101 — Depositing or placing refuse matter, dead animals and garbage into rivers, ditches, railroad rights-of-way, highways or public grounds prohibited; exception

Wyoming § 35-10-101

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 10: CRIMES AND OFFENSES
• Art. 1: DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE, REFUSE AND DEAD ANIMALS

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The depositing, placing, or causing to be placed or put, the
carcass of any dead animal or the offal or refuse matter from
any slaughterhouse, butcher shop, meat market, packing house,
fish house, hog pen, stable, or any spoiled meats, spoiled fish,
or any animal or vegetable matter in a putrid or decayed
condition or which is liable to become putrid, decayed or
offensive, or the contents of a privy vault, or any refuse or
garbage, or any offensive matter or substance whatever upon or
into any river, creek, bay, pond, canal, ditch, lake, stream,
railroad right-of-way, public or private roadway, highway,
street, alley lot, field, meadow, public place or public ground,
or in any other and different locality, building, or
establishment in this state so located that the said substance
shall directly or indirectly cause or threaten to cause the
pollution or impairment of the purity and usefulness of the
waters of any spring, reservoir, stream, irrigation ditch, lake
or water supply whether surface or subterranean, which are used
wholly or partly as a source of public or domestic water supply,
or where the same may become a source of annoyance to any
person, or within one-half mile of any inhabited dwelling, or
within one-half mile of any public roadway, by any person or
persons, association of persons, company or corporation,
incorporated city, incorporated or unincorporated town in the
state of Wyoming, or the knowingly permitting of such acts by
the owner, tenant, or occupant of said places, upon, into, or on
said places, or the permitting of said offensive substances or
other offensive substances to remain thereon or therein, shall
be unlawful and is hereby declared to constitute a nuisance
detrimental to the public health and general welfare of the
citizens of Wyoming, provided that no present or future
operation of any existing municipal garbage disposal system or
any extension of or changes therein, which involves
substantially daily burning, and no present or future operation
of any now existing municipal sewage disposal system or
facilities or any extension of or changes therein, shall be
considered as within the scope of the foregoing provisions of
this act or as a violation thereof but further provided that the
foregoing exception concerning any existing municipal garbage
disposal system, whether or not such involves substantially
daily burning, shall not be applicable to or except from the
scope of this act, any such system which has been commenced
since prior construction in the close vicinity thereof, of
occupied residential buildings or occupied business properties,
ten [(10)] or more in number.