Are homeless exempt?
That’s one thing I liked about my few weeks in Germany. The place was spotless. Cleaner than Disneyworld. Oh, and the beer.
Hopefully this extends to the idiots throwing cigarettes out of their cars/trucks. I see far too many little burned areas along the Texas highways every summer.
Ah yes.
With civil forfeiture belatedly being addressed the revenue state desperately needs a new source of fines they won’t be expected to prove before a real jury.
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One man’s trash is another’s treasure. Who’s to judge?
Funny my mother taught me not to throw things on the ground when I was a child.
I hate litterbugs. And thieves. And Illinois Nazis. And Nazis claiming to be anti-Nazi/anti-Fascist. A pox on them all.
I pick up at least one 55 gallon barrel of trash on my 1 side of 1 mile of state highway about every two weeks. The indian commune road looks like a dump.
I’d love to see a 60 hour community service sentence for every litter caught. They should expand this to citizen arrest and judge ruling only. Quick conviction then put the cretins to work.
Law enforcement won’t catch litterers. They can’t catch them in the act. The money is in people driving 50 in a 40 zone.
Our local TV channel in Dallas also pointed out that if you litter with something less than 5 lbs. you can also be fined $500; if over 5 lbs., the fine could be up to $2000.
Some “judge” will decide that it can only be enforced if there is a government supplied trash can withing 3 feet of the offense....
“Anyone caught and convicted of littering...”
Oh, how quaint.
Wanna print an impressive story? Show me conviction rates a year from now. And I don’t mean percentages; I mean hard numbers: X amount caught, X amount convicted, 60Y hours of community service performed. And — for a state the size of Texas — X had better be at least a four-digit number or words like “unenforceable” and “failure to enforce” will remain applicable.
We’ve had the signs up along our California highways all my life; I’ve never run into anybody who’s been busted for it.
Personally, I’m for a lightning bolt from the heavens blasting the bejeezus out of anybody who so much as flicks a cigarette butt onto the ground. You do “shock and awe” for the small stuff and it’ll revolutionize the public mind frame in a hot second.
Litter law fines don’t even cover the cost to the State of writing the citation. Community service of 60hrs might deter some people; 160hrs would grab a WHOLE lot more attention. You make it a certainty that dumping your car’s ash tray out the window will make you an uncompensated employee of the State for a MONTH...?!
THAT would be real “teeth” for the law.
As is...well, we’ll see, but don’t get your hopes up.