[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Indian Head
as Secs. 7-101, 7-102, 7-103 and 7-105 of the 1978 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any storekeeper or other person to encumber,
obstruct or in any manner interfere with the free and uninterrupted use of
the public streets and sidewalks of the Town of Indian Head by leaving any
goods, wares, merchandise or other articles or thing thereon or by the use
of a commercial lift, except for loading or during the erection or repair
of a building.
No person shall cast any dead animal into any street, avenue or alley
within the limits of the Town of Indian Head.
It shall be unlawful for any property owner or property holder whose
property contains trees, shrubbery or other vegetation to let the same grow
so as to impede persons or vehicles upon the sidewalks or streets of the town
by interference with one's view or by obstructing one's progress.
A.
No mechanical device, machine or apparatus or instrument
for amplification of the human voice or of any sound or noise nor any bell,
horn, gong, whistle, drum or other noise-making article, instrument or device
shall be struck, sounded, used, operated or caused to be used or operated
on or in any street, avenue, alley, highway, footway, sidewalk, parking lot
or other public space, nor shall loud noises be made by any such article,
instrument or device in or about barrooms, hotels or other public places in
the Town of Indian Head.
B.
No person within the Town of Indian Head shall make any
noise or outcry or use or operate or cause to be sounded or operated any of
the things or devices defined herein for the purpose of advertising wares
or inviting the patronage or attention of any person for or to any business
or any vehicle or rides whatsoever.
C.
This section shall not apply to any parade or community
event for which a permit has been issued by the Town Manager.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully break any
streetlights within the corporate limits of the town or to cut or break any
streetlight posts, parking signs or traffic signal devices in the Town of
Indian Head.
[Added 6-1-1998 by Ord. No. 5-1-98[1]]
No person shall possess in an open container any alcoholic beverage
anywhere within industrial or commercial zoned districts or upon any street,
avenue, alley, parking lot, playground, park or sidewalk or in any building
without the owner's or lessee's express consent, except on premises
for which an on-sale license for the sale of alcoholic beverages shall have
been issued; provided, however, that the Mayor or, in the absence of the Mayor,
the Town Manager may permit the consumption of alcoholic beverages on any
of the above places during special events or if, in his judgment, the same
would be in the public interest.
