The owner or occupant of any premises shall
keep the contiguous sidewalks free from dirt, filth, weeds, wastes
and obstructions.
No person shall erect or hang or permit to be
erected or hung or maintained upon any building owned or occupied
by him an awning or canopy, any part of which shall project in, over
or upon any of the streets, sidewalks or public places unless such
awning or canopy is at least seven feet above the sidewalk upon such
street or public place.
[Amended 10-21-2013 by L.L. No. 12-2013[1]]
No person who is the owner, lessee or occupant of any premises adjoining any street, avenue or highway shall place or keep or permit to be placed or kept on any sidewalk in front of, adjoining or adjacent to such premises any goods, wares or merchandise, unless a sidewalk vending permit is issued in accordance with Chapter 247, Sidewalk Cafes, Vending and Musicians, Article II, Sidewalk Vending. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit persons from placing goods, wares or merchandise or household furniture on the sidewalks for purposes of loading and unloading.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law also provided a sunset
date of 12-1-2014.
No merchant or purveyor of foods or other goods
shall permit wheeled carts or conveyors provided by him for the convenience
of patrons to remain on the sidewalks while not in use. Every such
vehicle left on a sidewalk or street shall be considered an obstacle
to traffic and a hazard to pedestrians and may, without notice, be
seized by the police and take to the Department of Public Works, subject
thereafter to restitution to its owner upon payment of reasonable
charges of transportation and storage as adopted by resolution of
the Board of Trustees[1] for every vehicle thus seized, removed and held.
[1]
Editor's Note: Such fee is on file and available
for inspection in the office of the Village Clerk during regular office
hours.
Any person owning, leasing or in possession
of lands in the Village shall maintain them at a level or grade not
lower than the level established for the adjoining sidewalk or sidewalk
line, as fixed by the Superintendent of Highways, to a distance of
not less than six feet from the sidewalk or sidewalk line, unless
he shall have protected or walled off said land from the sidewalk
or street by a fence of such height and construction as shall have
been approved by the Building Inspector.
No person shall deposit upon any of the sidewalks
in the Village or on the streets or other public places of the Village
any discarded containers, wrappings or newspapers or any refuse, rubbish
or other waste materials except as permitted in connection with the
collection of garbage.
No person engaged or connected with a building
operation shall obstruct any sidewalk in the Village. If the building
operation shall necessitate the temporary closing of such sidewalk
to public use, upon application to the Board of Trustees at a meeting
thereof, the Board of Trustees may authorize such temporary closing
of the sidewalk, subject to such restrictions and conditions as it
may impose.
[Amended 12-2-2013 by L.L. No. 14-2013]
A.Â
No person not otherwise authorized by law to do so
shall erect or maintain on or over any sidewalk or street within the
Village any telephone, electric-light or electric-power, cable television
or other poles or string wire over any sidewalk or street or over
or in front of any building in the Village without a permit from the
Superintendent of Public Works. No fee shall be charged for any such
permit.
B.Â
All telephone, electric-light or electric-power, cable
television or other poles located upon a street in the Village shall
be suitably marked to indicate the owner of such poles.
C.Â
All utility poles shall be structurally sound and capable of standing
in the vertical position and carrying the utility service lines attached
to the pole without the support, direct or indirect, of any other
utility pole. Guy wires may be used to support a utility pole, but
no guy wire shall cross any road, street, sidewalk or paved or unpaved
pedestrian walkway in such a manner as to pose a hazard to vehicles
or pedestrians.
D.Â
All cables, wires, service lines, pipes, conduits, fixtures, appliances
or any other element of the delivery system of any public or private
utility service must be securely attached to a utility pole or structure.
Cables, wires, service lines, pipes, conduits, fixtures, appliances
or any other element of the delivery system of any public or private
utility service must be set at a minimum height of 12 feet above grade
when running perpendicular or across a curb or sidewalk and a minimum
height of 14 feet above grade when crossing over a road, street or
highway.
Driveways and parking areas shall be so constructed
as to prevent materials used in the construction thereof from being
scattered or washed upon adjacent sidewalks.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Ord. 7.24, Gasoline
service stations, which immediately followed this section, was deleted
5-6-1991 by L.L. No. 5-1991.
[Amended 11-6-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
The owner and occupant of each and every premises
within the Village shall keep the adjacent sidewalk area between the
curb and property line in good care, free from brush, weeds, long
grass, rubbish and other materials and shall keep the grass and other
low-growing plants thereon cut. The following details plants and lawn-type
flowers that are allowed or prohibited.
A.Â
Allowed
plants between curbs and sidewalks. This includes lawn grasses and
other lawn-type low-growing plants that do not exceed four to six
inches in height, which do not create a tripping or entanglement hazard.
Examples of allowed plants include but are not limited to lawn-grasses,
mosses, clovers and other plants such as sporadically spaced bulb-flowers
to naturalize a lawn area, such as crocuses, snow drops and other
similar plants.
B.Â
Prohibited
plants between curbs and sidewalks. This includes plants that may
create a barrier, trip hazard or entanglement hazard and are prohibited
between the curb and the sidewalk. Such plants include but are not
limited to shrubs, decorative plants, grasses and flowers that exceed
six inches in height, vines and other similar plants. This also includes
noxious or poisonous plants such as poison ivy, poison oak, stinging
nettles and other plants that could cause injury to persons entering
and exiting vehicles or crossing between the sidewalk and the street.
