Every person owning or occupying or having charge and control
of any building shall cause the pipes conducting the water from the
eaves and roof of the building to be so constructed or altered as
not to spread the water over the sidewalk or to cause injury to the
sidewalk or persons walking over the same.
Any agent, manager or employee of any electric light company or corporation or of any telephone, telegraph or any other company or corporation whatsoever, doing business in this City, who shall throw, place or leave in or upon any of the streets, alleys, curbing, sidewalks or gutters of this City any nails, wire, poles, branches of trees, excavations or any rubbish whatever or who shall leave any wire hanging or suspended in a way to endanger or obstruct persons traveling on or using said streets, alleys or sidewalks shall be punishable as provided in Section 100.220 of this Code.
It shall be unlawful for any person, company, corporation or
co-partnership of persons to use the streets, alleys and sidewalks
of this City for any private or public business or otherwise than
for public travel as a highway without first obtaining the consent
of the duly constituted authorities of the City as hereinafter provided.
All proprietors, owner or managers of any store, shop, hotel,
restaurant, boarding house or any other place of business, within
this City, shall keep the sidewalks in front of any such place of
business clear of all obstructions of whatever kind and shall keep
the gutters adjacent thereto clean and free from trash and refuse.
Any person or persons who shall, within the City, conduct through pipes or otherwise into or upon any street, alley, highway or other place from any kitchen, bathroom, toilet or from any building of whatsoever kind any sewer, filthy or unclean water, urine, human excrement or any other offensive liquids or substances or suffer the same to escape and run upon any street or alley or the private property of another shall be punishable as provided in Section 100.220 of this Code.
Every person, corporation or co-partnership of persons engaged in the prosecution of their business or trade, who shall place any obstructions on the streets or sidewalks of this City in the line of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on any such street or near the same shall be required to place good and sufficient guardrails around such obstructions and at night shall hang on or near the same enough red lights to warn the public of the existence of such obstructions; and every person or manager or employee, if a corporation, failing to comply with the requirements of this Section and violating any of the provisions hereof shall be punishable as provided in Section 100.220 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 1845 § I, 7-17-2017]
A.
Except when approved as a special event, it shall be unlawful to
solicit when either the solicitor or the person being solicited is
located on public property.
C.
It shall be unlawful to solicit or panhandle in an aggressive manner,
including taking any of the following actions:
1.
Continuing to solicit or panhandle from a person after the person
has given a negative response to the solicitation or request;
2.
Touching a person without that person's consent;
3.
Blocking or interfering with the safe or free passage of a pedestrian
or vehicle by any means;
4.
Using violent or threatening gestures toward a person;
5.
Closely following behind, ahead or alongside a person who walks
away from the solicitor;
6.
Using profane or abusive language;
7.
Soliciting or panhandling in a group of two (2) or more persons;
or
8.
Soliciting or panhandling with the intent to intimidate another
person into giving money or other thing of value.
D.
It shall be unlawful to solicit or panhandle on residential or private
property after having been asked to leave or refrain from soliciting
by the owner or other person lawfully in charge of the property or
lawfully in possession of the property.
E.
It shall be unlawful for any person, while soliciting or panhandling,
to enter upon any residential premises in the City where the owner,
occupant or person legally in charge of the premises has posted, at
the entry to the premises, or at the entry to the principal building
on the premises, a sign bearing the words "No Peddlers," "No Solicitors,"
or "No Peddling" or words of similar import.
F.
For reasons of public safety, it shall be unlawful for a person to
stand in or enter upon a roadway for the purpose of soliciting or
panhandling:
G.
For reasons of public safety, no person shall enter into the roadway
for the purpose of distributing anything to the occupant of any vehicle.
H.
The activities in this Section are permissible to an occupant of
a non-moving vehicle on the roadway adjacent to a sidewalk if the
person is on the adjacent sidewalk and the vehicle is legally parked.
I.
Outside of the provisions contained in this Section, nothing contained
herein is intended to prohibit panhandling or distribution by any
person on a sidewalk to another person on the sidewalk, or by and
among persons in a City parking lot or City park.
J.
Construction. This Section is not intended to create a result through
enforcement that is absurd, impossible, or unreasonable. This Section
should be held inapplicable in any cases where its application would
be unconstitutional under the Constitution of the State or the Constitution
of the United States of America.
