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City of Malden, MO
Dunklin County
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[R.O. 1993 § 220.380; R.O. 1932 § 598; CC 1969 § 18-38]
It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to climb upon, hold on to or in any manner attach himself to any locomotive, engine or car, while it is in motion or running through this City; provided that this Section shall not apply to any employee of the railroad company, nor to any passenger, nor to any person who may be acting by permission under the rules of the railroad company then operating the railroad.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.390; R.O. 1932 § 619; CC 1969 § 18-48]
It shall be unlawful for any person to wash any automobile or other vehicle whatsoever, or any horse, mule or other animal, on any sidewalk or street within the City.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.400; Ord. No. 2465 § 1, 10-10-1989]
A. 
Private Contact Prohibited. Representatives of community antenna television companies seeking the City's franchise or renewal franchise, if applicable, shall not under any circumstances make private contact or communicate in any fashion with any elected representative or appointed official of the City.
B. 
Private Contact Defined. Private contact shall be any contact, conversation, mailing, involvement or communication except in a public meeting of the City's governing body.
C. 
Special Authorization Exception. Private meetings, conversations, visitation, or other contacts by the City Officials with CATV company representatives shall be allowed when authorized in public meetings by the City's governing body, and where the scope of the non-public contact is specifically defined.
D. 
CATV Representative, Defined. An individual shall be deemed to be a representative by a CATV company when that individual is employed by a CATV company, its parent, or subsidiary; is a shareholder; is an independent agent or contractor or stands to gain monetarily by the award of a franchise to a particular company.
E. 
Status Of Executive Committee. The Executive Committee of the City of Malden is the entity empowered to proceed with the franchise process. Therefore, representatives of CATV companies may communicate, converse and contact only Executive Committee members, as designated by the Executive Committee, except in public meetings of the City Council.
F. 
Penalties. A violation of the provisions of this Section shall be punishable as set forth in Section 100.220 of this Code. The City Council may disqualify the company whose representative violates the provisions of this Section upon its own finding, or upon a finding in the Municipal Court. All complaints filed in the Municipal Court alleging violations under this Section shall go to the top of the Court calendar, and shall be prosecuted as quickly as possible, but consistent with constitutional requirements of due process.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.420; Ord. No. 2551 § 1, 3-28-1994]
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall establish, within the municipal boundaries of the City of Malden, any auto wrecking yard or junkyard as defined in Section 605.340.
B. 
Any auto wrecking yards or junkyards in operation prior to March 28, 1994, are hereby prohibited from expanding their operation so as to increase land or structures to accommodate increase in volume.
C. 
It is declared to be the purpose and intent of this Article to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Malden, to promote the stability of property values, and to preserve and enhance the natural scenic beauty of the City of Malden.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.430; Ord. No. 2550 § 1, 3-28-1994]
A. 
For the purpose of this Article, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them by this Section:
AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD or AUTO WRECKING YARD
Any establishment, area, or place of business maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or parts thereof.
JUNK
Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron steel and other old or scrapped ferrous or non-ferrous material.
JUNKYARD OR SALVAGE YARD
An establishment, area, or place of business maintained, operated, or used for the storing, keeping, buying or selling of junk for the operation of automobile graveyard or auto wrecking yard, garbage dump or sanitary fill.
B. 
No auto wrecking yard or junkyard shall be established, maintained or operated within the City unless such wrecking yard or junkyard is screened from the view of the public by a fence not less than eight (8) feet high. The said fence shall conform with the "fencing specifications" that are set out in Subsection (D) of this Section.
C. 
Any person found guilty of a violation of this Section shall be guilty of an ordinance violation and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
D. 
Fencing Specifications.
1. 
All materials and installation required shall conform to the following:
a. 
Standard mill tolerances shall be used for all the framework members and chain link fabric.
b. 
The total height of fence shall be not less than eight (8) feet high.
c. 
The fence shall be of the top rail, bottom tension wire type, with privacy decorative slatting, in accordance with the specifications.
2. 
The fabric shall be nine (9) gauge galvanized steel wire or aluminized coated steel wire with the top and bottom selvages to be knuckled. Zinc coated steel fabric shall be galvanized after weaving. Galvanizing shall be 1.2 oz./sq. ft. minimum. Aluminized coated steel shall be 0.40 oz/sq. ft. minimum.
3. 
The slatting shall be of industrial grade polyethylene, flat tubular in shape with a wall thickness of not less than 0.030 inches± 0.003 inches and manufactured from a combination of quality base high density virgin polyethylene with color pigments and ultra violet inhibitor. Other material properties shall include a melt index value of 0.34, density value of 0.951, low temperature brittleness temperature of seventy-six degrees below zero (-76° F.), tensile strength of three thousand seven hundred (3,700) psi, a resistance to heat of two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250° F.), and a wind load factor of seventy-five percent (75%) when installed. Plastic or vinyl shall not be acceptable.
4. 
The chain link fabric shall be securely fastened to all terminal posts using three-sixteenths inches by three-eighths inches (3/16" x 3/8") tension bars and heavy eleven (11) gauge tension bands. There shall be one (1) band for each foot in height of fence. The fabric shall be fastened to all intermediate posts with either six (6) gauge aluminum or nine (9) gauge galvanized steel tie-wires, spacing not to exceed fifteen (15) inches apart. Fabric shall be tied to top rail with same type as required on posts with spacings not to exceed twenty-four (24) inches.
5. 
When barbed wire is installed, then the barbed wire shall consist of three (3) lines of barbed wire above the fence and one (1) strand below which is to be of the four-point pattern composed of two (2) strands of twelve and one-half (12 1/2) gauge line wire with fourteen (14) gauge barbs spaced on approximately six (6) inch centers. Barbed wire shall lean outward at a thirty degree (30°) angle in all areas except on the gates. Gate barbed wire shall be vertical. The single strand below the fence shall be placed midway between the knuckle and the ground.
6. 
All posts used in the construction of this fence shall be hot-dipped galvanized. All pipe uprights and rails shall be Schedule 40 pipe conforming to ASTM-A-120 or SS-40 with a zinc coating of 0.0 oz/sq. ft with a chromate conversion coating and then a thermoplastic acrylic coating of not less than 0.3 mils dry film thickness. The SS-40 shall also have a zinc rich interior coating of not less than 0.3 mil dry film thickness.
7. 
The intermediate posts shall be three (3) inches outside diameter evenly spaced in line of fence not further apart than ten (10) feet on centers.
8. 
All end, corner and pull posts shall be three (3) inches outside diameter (0.0.) with a pull post set at the midway point of all lines five hundred (500) feet or longer and at all changes of direction and/or grade of fifteen (15±) or more. A pull post shall also be placed at each point of radius for a curved line where radius has an internal angle of thirty (30±) or more, and still maintained the maximum five hundred (500) feet.
9. 
Posts for swing gates shall be three (3) inches outside diameter for each gate leaf up to seven (7) foot six (6) inches (fifteen (15) foot opening double leaf).
Gate leaf over seven (7) feet six (6) inches to thirteen (13) feet wide
4 inches O.D.
Gate leaf over thirteen (13) feet to eighteen (18) feet wide
6 5/6 inches O.D.
Gate leaf over eighteen (18) feet
8 5/8 inches O.D.
10. 
Gate posts shall be equipped with tops so designed to exclude moisture.
11. 
The posts shall be of sufficient length to extend thirty-six (36) inches into a forty-two (42) inch concrete footing. Footing to be twelve (12) inch diameter for the intermediate posts and eighteen (18) inches in diameter for the terminal and gate posts. Concrete for the footings shall display a twenty-eight (28) day strength of four thousand (4,000) psi.
12. 
The top rail shall be one and five-eighths (1 5/8) inches outside diameter pipe provided with couplings approximately every twenty (20) feet. Couplings are to be an outside sleeve type at least seven (7) inches long. The top rail is to pass through the line post tops and form a continuous brace from end to end of each stretch of fence. The top rail to be securely fastened to the terminal posts by heavy pressed steel brace bands and steel rail end connections.
13. 
Brace pipe, as required, shall be installed midway between the top rail and the bottom fabric. Braces shall be securely fastened to posts by heavy pressed steel fittings and secured with truss rod and tightener.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.440; Ord. No. 2675, 3-11-1999]
A. 
No person being owner or occupant of any premises within the City of Malden shall suffer or permit such premises to become offensive; nor shall any person keep, collect, use or cause to be kept, collected or used in this City any junk as herein defined.
B. 
Definition. As used in this Section, the following term shall have the prescribed meaning:
JUNK
Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron steel and other old scrap ferrous or non-ferrous material, appliances, heating/cooling units or junked, dismantled or damaged appliances or dismantled or damaged heating/cooling units.
[R.O. 1993 § 223.010; Ord. No. 2745 §§ 1 — 2, 10-23-2000]
A. 
Trick-or-treating shall only be allowed between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. on Halloween evening.
B. 
When Halloween falls on Sunday, Halloween shall be celebrated on the preceding Saturday.