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(7) Harms human life, aquatic life, or terrestrial plant and wildlife.
<br /> POLLUTANT includes but is not limited to dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue,
<br /> garbage, wastewater sludge, chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials, rock,
<br /> sand, dust, industrial waste, sediment, nutrients, toxic substance, pesticide, herbicide, trace metal,
<br /> automotive fluid, petroleum -based substance, and oxygen - demanding material.
<br /> POLLUTE. To discharge pollutants into public waters.
<br /> POLLUTION. The direct or indirect distribution of pollutants into public waters.
<br /> PUBLIC WATERS. Waters of the state, as defined in Minn. Stat. Sec. 103G.005(15).
<br /> STATE DESIGNATED WATER USES. Uses specified in state water quality standards.
<br /> STORM SEWER SYSTEM. A conveyance or system of conveyances that is owned and operated
<br /> by the city or other entity and designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater.
<br /> STORMWATER. Defined under Minnesota Rule 7077.0105, subpart 41(b), and means
<br /> precipitation runoff, stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff and any other surface runoff and
<br /> drainage.
<br /> SURFACE WATERS. All public waters other than ground waters, which include ponds, lakes,
<br /> rivers, streams, tidal and nontidal wetlands, public ditches, tax ditches, and public drainage
<br /> systems except those designed and used to collect, convey, or dispose of sanitary sewage.
<br /> § 51.22. ADMINISTRATION.
<br /> The city and its authorized representatives are authorized to administer, implement, and
<br /> enforce the provisions of this chapter.
<br /> § 51.23 - ILLEGAL DISPOSAL AND DUMPING.
<br /> (A) No person shall throw, deposit, place, leave, maintain, or keep any substance upon any
<br /> street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet, catchbasin conduit or drainage structure, business, or
<br /> upon any public or private land, so that the same might be or become a pollutant, unless the
<br /> substance is in containers, recycling bags, or any other lawfully established waste disposal
<br /> device.
<br /> (B) No person shall intentionally dispose of grass, leaves, dirt, or landscape material into a
<br /> water resource, buffer, street, road, alley, catchbasin, culvert, curb, gutter, inlet, ditch, natural
<br /> watercourse, flood control channel, canal, storm drain or any fabricated natural conveyance.
<br /> 51.24 - Illicit discharges.
<br /> (A) No person shall cause any illicit discharge to enter the storm sewer system or any
<br /> surface water.
<br /> (B) Exemptions. The following discharges are exempt from this section:
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