Frustrated by litter thrown or blown from cars and trucks?  What about businesses and homeowners who let their trash pile up in violation of local laws.  In addition to police officers, justices of the peace and constables can cite violators with fines and can require litter violators to clean up the litter and do community service work.  What can you do?  Report litter violations.

What is Illegal?

Basically every form of littering is prohibited by local, parish and state ordinances.

Here is a summary of what the ordinances cover:

n       Throwing, dumping or placing any waste item or other material on public property, the right of way or private property without the owners consent.

n       Allowing anything to escape from a vehicle – all trash and other material transported in a commercial or privately owned vehicle must be completely enclosed, covered by a tarp or otherwise secured.

n       Trash on commercial or private property must be kept in a sealed container.  There is nothing in the building code that exempts construction and demolition sites from these laws.

Making a Report 

When you see littering occur, all you need to do is record the information in the form below and deliver it to a law enforcement agency or officer within the jurisdiction the incident occurred.  In the case of the City of West Monroe, you can either deliver the information by hand, telephone or by computer file transfer.

To submit by computer, fill out the form and click on the submit button below.