26.11.230 Littering

(a) Any person, business, or organization who shall intentionally, carelessly, or recklessly throw, scatter, spill, put, or intentionally, carelessly or recklessly cause litter to be blown, scattered, spilled, thrown or placed or otherwise disposed of upon any public property or upon private property within the jurisdiction of the Turtle Mountain Reservation shall be guilty of a Class [2] two offense.

(1) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway. Trucks, trailers or other vehicles when loaded with rock, gravel, stone or other similar substances which could blow, leak, sift or drop shall not be driven or moved on any highway unless the height of the load against all four walls does not extend above six inches below their tops when loaded.

(2) The load shall be securely covered by tarpaulin or some other suitable covering, or unless it is otherwise constructed as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, or otherwise escaping in that event. Nothing in this subsection shall be applicable to or in any manner restrict the transportation of seed, poultry, livestock, silage or other feed grain used in the feeding of poultry or livestock.

(3) This section shall not apply to lands or property that is designated by the Turtle Mountain Band for the disposal of garbage and refuse where the public is authorized to use such property for such purpose.