No person shall permit any building, structure,
erection or any part thereof to encroach upon or extend over, under
or into any public street or public place.
A.
No person shall obstruct or permit the obstruction of any street or public place by the storage or placing of any building material or other material or merchandise thereon, or permit the same to remain longer than is necessary to convey the same on or into private property, unless a permit so to do shall first have been issued in accordance with the provisions of § 148-6 of this chapter.
B.
Permits granted hereunder shall in each case expire
30 days after the date of issuance, unless extended. No such permit
shall be granted which permits the use or obstruction of more than
1/3 of the width of the roadway of any public street at any one point.
[Amended 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74]
C.
Each application for such permit shall, in addition to the information required under § 148-6B of Article I of this chapter, state the kind and character of material to be stored or placed in such public street or place, the exact location where the same is to be stored or placed and the maximum length of time that such obstruction shall continue.
D.
The Superintendent of Public Works may impose conditions
in any permit issued under this section with respect to keeping the
sidewalk open for travel and any other conditions he shall deem proper
in the interest of the public safety and convenience.
All cellarways or hoistways extending into any
public street or place shall be covered with iron doors flush with
the sidewalk and, when opened, shall at all times be protected either
by guardrails or chains. No such cellarways or hoistways shall remain
open so that the sidewalk or street is obstructed for a period longer
than is necessary for the reasonable use thereof.
No person shall place or permit to be placed
upon any sidewalk any object or thing that shall in any manner encumber
any sidewalk or render travel dangerous or unsafe thereon.
In all cases where the sidewalk or roadway of any street shall be encumbered or obstructed by the caving in of any earth, rocks, rubbish or anything whatever from any lot adjoining such sidewalk or roadway, the owner or tenant of such lot shall cause such earth, rocks, rubbish or other articles to be removed and cleaned from such sidewalk or roadway within three days after the service of notice of violation pursuant to § 148-5 of Article I of this chapter.
[Added 9-22-2020 by Ord. No. 36-2020]
A.
Unless
specifically authorized by the City Manager or designee, no person
shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street within
the City any sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be
or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device
or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to limit or direct the
movement of traffic in any way, or which hides from view or interferes
with the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device or any
railroad sign or signal.
B.
Every
such prohibited sign, signal, marking or device is hereby declared
to be a public nuisance and if located on public property the governing
body is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed
without notice.
C.
This
section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private
property adjacent to City streets signs giving useful directional
information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs,
if otherwise not limited or prohibited elsewhere in the City Code.
[Added 9-22-2020 by Ord. No. 36-2020]
A.
No person
or other entity shall leave any athletic equipment or athletic apparatus,
including, but not limited to, a basketball stand, basketball backboard
or basketball net, whether any of same are portable or fixed, on any
City street, sidewalk or right-of-way or on private property in the
vicinity of a City street, sidewalk or right-of-way such that the
use of the equipment or apparatus will encroach into or about a City
street or right-of-way.
B.
No person
or other entity shall place, deposit, fix or allow to remain on any
utility pole located on any City sidewalk, adjacent to any City street,
on any City right-of-way or adjacent to any of same, any article,
equipment or apparatus, including but not limited to basketball hoops,
nets or baskets, or other recreational or sports equipment or apparatus.
C.
There
shall be a rebuttable presumption under this section that the person
or entity in control of the private property on which the equipment
or apparatus is located or the property contiguous to or closest to
the equipment or apparatus, if not contiguous, is the person or entity
to have violated this section.
D.
Every
such item of athletic equipment or athletic apparatus is hereby declared
to be a public nuisance and if located on public property the City
is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without
notice.
