littering offence

Littering offences and fines have been broadened to deal with different types of litter.

It is also a littering offence.

Councils and regulatory agencies can make sure that their officers understand the littering offences and the power to issue penalty notices.

In February, the council's enforcement officers started issuing fixed penalty notices in the same way they sometimes do for littering offences.

They have the power to issue £25 Fixed Penalty Notices for a variety of littering offences.

We accept that dropping an elastic band is hardly the worst littering offence in the world, but nonetheless it is litter."

He was charged with a littering offence but failed to appear at Skegness Magistrates Court last Thursday.

For example, there is a great deal of difference in determining whether a person has committed a littering offence as opposed to the offence of offensive behaviour.

Cardiff council say they want to treat spitting as a littering offence like dog fouling and dropping chewing gum and cigarette butts.

Creates new littering offences that apply in private as well as public places, with heavy penalties where litter is likely to cause danger or harm to persons or animals.

Subsequently, a bill was presented to the same Legislative Council that streamlined the penalty procedures for someone caught flouting the smoking ban and made it on par with littering offences.

If there is no real social stigma attached to the offence and the offence is a victimless crime (eg. littering offence) the offence is more likely to be suitable for an on-the-spot fine.

A 'zero tolerance' and stricter enforcement action will be taken against spitting and littering offences, illegal cooked food hawkers, filthy rear lanes and private roads, unhygienic market stalls, unclean toilets and dirty pavements in front of shops.

The offence of leaving litter (section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990) says that if a person drops, throws deposits or leaves anything so as to cause defacement in a public place, they could be committing a littering offence.