7-5-4113. Littering with lighted matches, cigarettes, and other burning material and dumping ashtray prohibited -- penalty -- posting.
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7-5-4113 . Littering with lighted matches, cigarettes, and other burning material and dumping ashtray prohibited -- penalty -- posting.
(1)A person may not throw away lighted matches, tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, or other lighted material on a forest road, private road, city street, county road, public highway, or railroad right-of-way, except lighted materials used as safety signaling devices, in this state.
(2)A person may not empty an ashtray containing matches, ashes, cigarette or cigar refuse, or other related material on a forest road, private road, city street, county road, public highway, or railroad right-of-way in this state.
(3)A person convicted of violating subsection
(1)or
(2)shall be fined a minimum of $100.
(4)Municipalities, the forest service, county governments, property owners, public transit operators, federal highway administrators, and any other appropriate entity may, at their discretion, post copies of this section in conspicuous locations.