I disagree. Littering may not cause immediate damage to a person or property, but it does harm/degrade the environment, and requires the effort of cleaning it up, whether this is done by private individuals or by the municipal government.
Rodrick Femm,
Well the City of Elkhart, IN doesn’t think littering is harmless either.
City of Elkhart website again: https://www.elkhartindiana.org/
Once at the website click on the icon for City Code. That takes you to the City of Elkhart page of American Legal Publishing, these folks take an Ordinance as passed by the City Council and signed by the Mayor and codify the Ordinance and then when the codified Ordinance is posted at their website, the Ordinance comes into effect and can be enforced.
Once at the Cities page you can search by word or phrase.
I will also give you the Citations:
Title IX General Regulations,
Chapter 96 Public Parks,
Section 96.17 Littering and Section 96.99 Penalty
Also
Title IX General Regulations,
Chapter 99 Garbage, Rubbish, Ashes, Filth and Recyclables
Section 99.08 Vehicles dropping contents or litter on city streets or other public ways and properties,
Sub-section (A) Littering.
Section 99.99 Penalty
Sub-section (B) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Section 99.01 through Section 99.10 et seg.
[I have replaced the symbol § with the word section so as to make reading a little clearer.]
I worked for the City of Elkhart for 16 years in the Building and Code Enforcement Department, I was the Plumbing Inspector and also did some Code Enforcement.
Zuer-coli
In many jurisdictions the Disorderly Conduct & Disturbing the Peace statutes are so loosely written that they can be used to charge for almost anything. So I suppose if the owner of said vehicle made a big enough fuss over it you might get tagged with that.
I have no cite but some places have laws regarding intentional vehicle tampering. These were in response to people putting flyers and such under parked cars windshield wipers.
Hmmmm, is it below freezing outside? Will there be enough buckets of water used to completely encase my car in a layer of thick ice?
I’m pretty sure that would be some kind of nuisance crime, if that’s the true aim here.
My question is if it not a crime then what gives someone else the right to intentionally do what they want to MY car even if it doesn’t damage it?
Hence the nuisance ordinances regarding people putting flyers/coupons and other crap under peoples windshields. Not only does that annoy car owners but most of those things end up littering the ground.
Why do you say that? What are you referring to as the source of determining what “matters”? In the law, the existence of harm or the degree of harm often does matter. And intent doesn’t always matter.
Generally speaking, the crime of “assault” can only be committed on a person. Is there some specific law you are referring to that would define as splashing some water on a car as assault?