An East Hampton jury found Springs resident Rian White, 53, guilty of five of six counts of town code violations Friday, including failure to maintain his premises free of litter and not having a building permit or a certificate of occupancy for a shed on his property at 11 Hodder Avenue. The jury found him not guilty of displaying a non-conforming sign: a six-foot hot dog statue, with arms, legs and a smiling face that he stores in his backyard.

Mr. White said he will appeal. He charged that Judge Lisa R. Rana had kept evidence from the jury, including the details of an incident in October 2007, when the town sent a crew to remove litter from his property but ended up leaving empty-handed, concerned about the legality of the operation. Two months later, Code Enforcement Officer James Smith returned to Mr. White’s property and issued a new summons for littering.

“I’m not necessarily a slob but I don’t think it’s right for the government to tell you what to do on your property,” Mr. White said outside the courtroom Friday evening, after the day-long trial, during which he wore a yellow tie depicting a little boy urinating. “I’m really bummed out about the littering thing because, I mean, I put my cigarette butts in my pocket. I’ve never littered in my whole life.”

Friday’s trial was the culmination of six years of battle between Mr. White, angry neighbors and the town. Madeleine Narvilas, the assistant town attorney who prosecuted the case for East Hampton, said that it had always been the town’s hope that Mr. White would plead guilty to the charges and “get into compliance,” so that the case would never have had to go to trial. Even after the jury was impaneled Friday morning, the town gave him one more offer to plead guilty to the charges and not have to pay any fines, as long as he remedied the violations.

But Mr. White refused. “If I pleaded guilty and they got that break, I think everybody suffers because you’re going to lose certain, inalienable rights. I don’t think what I’m doing is criminal,” he said Monday in a phone interview.

Neighbors of his who attended the trial disagreed.

“We’re pleased with the outcome,” said Vincent Wolfe Jr., the grandson of Mr. White’s 96-year-old next-door neighbor. “But what happens next? It’s the opening of the next chapter, if the town is able to turn this verdict into action and bring his property into compliance.”

Ms. Narvilas is seeking maximum fines, $1,000 for each of the five charges on which Mr. White was found guilty, and the requirement that all violations must be cleared up. The sentencing is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, at 2 p.m. in Town Justice Court.

Mr. White’s attorney, Trevor Darrell, described the trial as a conflict between what some may consider to be litter versus what others might consider as valuable items. “Just because you have things on your property, it’s litter?” Mr. Darrell asked during his opening statements.

Later, in an interview, he said, “I think the definition of what makes something litter in the town of East Hampton is highly vague. If it makes the property unsightly, that could be litter, but who says it’s unsightly—the officer who shows up? If you went and walked around the property, Rian could tell you what everything was and what he was going to do with it.”

According to the East Hampton Town Code, “the owner or person in control of any private property shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter.”

Litter is defined as “Garbage, refuse, handbills, newspapers and rubbish … and all other waste materials which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tend to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare or render the streets, private grounds or public places unsightly, including household waste and construction and demolition debris.” The code also gives detailed definitions of what constitutes “refuse” and “rubbish.”

The town’s prosecutor, Ms. Narvilas, called two witnesses during the trial, Ordinance Enforcement Inspector Joshua Stewart and Enforcement Officer James Smith. Pictures they took of Mr. White’s property were submitted in evidence to prove her case.

“There’s nothing subjective about these offenses,” Ms. Narvilas said during a phone interview on Monday. “The code enumerates them.”

“The town code has pretty strict regulations on how you’re supposed to maintain your property,” said Don Sharkey, East Hampton Town’s chief building inspector.

During the trial, Officer Stewart testified that he had visited Mr. White’s property on two occasions, the first time on September 14, 2006, in response to a neighbor’s complaint about the litter and debris on Mr. White’s property.