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City of Taneytown, MD
Carroll County
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New Laws (1) Index
[Adopted 7-11-1983 by Ord. No. 9-83 (Title 12, Ch. 1 of the 1980 Code)]
[Amended 2-14-2005 by Ord. No. 3-2005]
A. 
No person shall encumber, block or obstruct or in any manner interfere with the free and uninterrupted use of the public streets and sidewalks of the City.
B. 
No person shall deposit filth, dirt, snow, ice, grass or any other substance, matter or material in such a manner that results in the obstruction or impediment of the drainage flow through any gutter or to discharge or place such materials on any portion of a public way.
[Added 8-11-2003 by Ord. No. 9-2003]
A. 
No person shall engage in or play any sports or games and/or erect, construct or place any sports equipment on or about or in such a manner so as to obstruct any street, road, alley, cul-de-sac, sidewalk or public way of the City.
B. 
No person shall erect, construct or place any permanently affixed or temporary movable sports equipment within 20 feet of any street, road, alley or cul-de-sac of the City or within 15 feet of any sidewalk or public way of the City.
C. 
For purposes of this section, "sports" or "games" shall include but not be limited to basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball, football, handball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, and other sports, recreational activities or games of any kind or nature.
D. 
For purposes of this section, "sports equipment" shall include but not be limited to permanent or temporary movable basketball hoops or nets, hockey or soccer goals or nets, ramps, nets and any other sports or recreational equipment of any kind or nature.
E. 
Violations of this section shall be subject to the penalties as set forth in § 176-7. In addition to the fines and penalties set forth in § 176-7, for any third or subsequent violation of this section involving the use of sports equipment, such sports equipment shall be subject to immediate impoundment. The fee to have such sports equipment released from impoundment shall be the sum of $100, which impoundment fee shall be in addition to the other fines and penalties as set forth in § 176-7.
F. 
In any case in which the violator is a minor, payment of any penalties, impoundment fees, and fines shall be the responsibility of the parent or legal guardian of the minor.
A. 
Within 10 hours after the cessation of a snowfall, the owners and/or occupants of all properties shall remove, or cause to be removed, such snow from the sidewalks abutting upon those properties to permit free and unencumbered passage of pedestrians upon the sidewalks and prevent an accumulation of ice or the creation of hazardous walking conditions.
B. 
In the event that the responsible person or persons shall fail to remove such snow upon the sidewalks or shall permit an accumulation of ice thereon or shall permit the sidewalks to remain in a hazardous condition for more than 10 hours after the cessation of any snowfall, then the City may, at the cost and expense of the responsible person or persons, cause the removal of that snow or ice or may make safe any hazardous condition resulting from an accumulation of snow or ice, which charge or expense shall be a lien upon the property affected and shall be collectible in the same manner as taxes levied upon such property. Any lien provided herein should be in addition to the penalty set forth for violation thereof and not in substitution therefor.
A. 
No person engaged in excavation, repairs to structures or grounds or construction or having charge or control of excavation, repairs to structures or grounds or construction or who may be engaged in or have charge or control of conveying material to or from excavations, repairs to structures or grounds or construction shall deposit or permit to be deposited, in any manner, upon the surface of any street, alley, avenue, highway, footway, sidewalk, parking or other public space within the corporate limits of the city, either by placing, spilling, dropping or tracking from wheels of vehicles or from the feet of animals or otherwise, any earth, clay, mud, sand, gravel or other material. If any deposit occurs, every person whose duty it is under this section to prevent the deposit shall promptly remove the same. All macadamized or broken stone roadways adjacent to excavations or traversed by vehicles either in the process of conveying material from an excavation or in returning from the place of deposit to the place of excavation shall be covered with planking so far as may be required to prevent any mud, earth, clay or other material from the excavation or from the place of deposit from reaching the surface of the roadway.
B. 
No owner, driver, manager or conductor of any cart or other vehicle shall carry or convey or cause to be carried or conveyed in the vehicle any coal, earth, sand, gravel, broken stone, dirt, ashes, paper and other rubbish or any loose fluid or offensive articles or matter or any articles whatsoever within the corporate limits of the City so that the same shall or may be scattered, dropped, let fall, blown or spilled therefrom, and all vehicles conveying combustible refuse or foul, dusty or offensive matter of any sort shall have tight bodies and be closely and securely covered. All vehicles conveying wastepaper and wastepaper products, baled, sacked or otherwise, shall be closely and securely covered.
C. 
Owners of lots abutting upon streets, avenues or alleys, or upon public parking or other public space, in the City and which are above grade shall protect those lots so as to prevent dirt, sand or gravel or any bushes, trees or like thing from falling or being washed upon the sidewalks, streets, alleyways or other public space adjacent to the same.
No person shall cast or throw into any street, alley, avenue or highway within the jurisdiction of the City authorities any glass, bottles, glassware, crockery, porcelain or other similar substances, or pieces thereof, or any pieces of iron, hardware or sharp metal, nails, tacks, dead animals or other articles or any wastepaper, trash, rubbish, garbage or refuse of any kind.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 124, Health and Sanitation, Art. II, Refuse, and Art. IV, Littering.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to drag or run or cause to be dragged or run any harrow or other implement, engine, machine or tool upon any asphalt, bithulitic, warrenite or other type of permanently paved street or sidewalk of the city. It shall also be unlawful to injure any dirt street in the same manner.
[Added 8-9-1999 by Ord. No. 8-99; 12-13-1999 by Ord. No. 9-99]
It shall be unlawful to plant any tree, shrub or bush on any land owned by the City or on any land in or over which the City has an easement or a right-of-way without the approval, in writing, of the City and subject to any conditions which the City may deem appropriate.
[Amended 8-9-1999 by Ord. No. 8-99; 12-13-1999 by Ord. No. 9-99]
The violation of any of the provisions of this article is declared to be a municipal infraction. The penalty for violation shall be $50 for each initial offense and $100 for each repeat offense, in addition to the cost and expense to the City of the removal of the snow, ice, dirt, trash, refuse, glass or dead animal found to be in violation or the repairs to any street or sidewalk.