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Residents urge tougher dumping fines; council directs ordinance committee to consult police and counsel
Summary
Residents asked councilors to increase fines for illegal dumping and for fines to better reflect cleanup costs; the council directed the ordinances committee to meet with the police chief, director of city operations and corporation counsel to consider changes.
Residents who volunteer to clean Fall River parks and waterways asked the city council to strengthen penalties for illegal dumping and to make fines commensurate with cleanup costs.
Sarah and James Riley, of 1679 Copacot Road, told the council they work with environmental police officers and volunteer groups removing garbage from the bioreserve and other places. Sarah Riley said fines should “reflect significant and unquantifiable manpower costs to the city, investigation, enforcement, DCM removal, and cost of elimination,” and that fines should be posted so the public…
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