61-8-365. Putting refuse on highway prohibited. (1) A person may not throw or deposit upon a highway glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, paper, or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon the highway.
     (2) A person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon a highway destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the material or cause it to be removed.
     (3) A person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from the vehicle.
     (4) Except as provided in 61-8-372, a person convicted of violating this section shall be fined not less than $50. Except for the minimum fine of $50 as provided in this subsection and except for the minimum fine of $100 as provided in 61-8-372, the penalty provisions of 61-8-711 apply to this section.

     History: En. Sec. 108, Ch. 263, L. 1955; R.C.M. 1947, ; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 510, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 67, L. 1997.