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Watch that cigarette butt, potato chip bag, losing lottery ticket. The price for littering is about to go way up.
City Council approved an ordinance today that raises littering fines from $25 to $150 - and $300 if you challenge your fine and lose.
"This is one of the few cities in the country where people feel they have an absolute right to throw something out of their car window or toss something at their feet," City Councilman James F. Kenney said. "I hate to have to fine people to not do what should be common sense."
The bill, which Mayor Nutter is expected to sign, would also impose a $150 fine for dumping household trash in public receptacles.
Kenney and Councilman Frank DiCicco, who sponsored the legislation, have complained that business owners and apartment dwellers have taken to dumping their trash until receptacles overflow, turning trash bins into eyesores.
"What happens is that people think that this is their private trash receptacle," Kenney said. "It actually obstructs the entire purpose of putting them there in the first place."
Kenney said the city would put warning stickers on trash cans to let residents know about the new law.
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