It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any
person hereafter to erect, construct, or hereafter to continue, or
keep up or maintain any wire fence, or any fence or obstruction across
any of the streets or alleys platted and laid out as such, on any
grounds now lying and being within the City limits of the said City
of Las Vegas.
No person shall be permitted to in any way obstruct the sidewalks
of the City or use any part or portion thereof for business or private
purposes. Wares, merchandise, household goods or other property in
the course of delivery must be promptly removed by the owner thereof.
No person shall construct or build or cause to be constructed
or built any stoops, steps, gallery, platform, stairs or receiving
platform upon or over any sidewalks, street or alley in the City.
No bow or other window, balcony or column or any other part of a building
shall extend into or over any sidewalk beyond the building line. Any
person who shall fail to remove the same within a reasonable time
after being notified by the City, in writing, shall be deemed to be
in violation of this chapter, and each failure or refusal to remove
the same after such notice shall constitute a separate violation.
[Added 6-20-1991 by Ord. No. 79-23]
Whenever a public building, public facility or other public
place is being built or altered, handicap access must be addressed
and the work shall be accomplished in accordance with Sections 104
and 106 of the current Uniform Building Code, other applicable publications
and established handicapped standards before the City's Zoning
Department issues a building permit.
[Added 6-20-1991 by Ord. No. 79-23]
Any owner of a private business or structure who wishes to build
a ramp for the handicapped shall comply with Sections 104 and 106
of the current Uniform Building Code, other applicable publications
and established handicapped standards before the City's Zoning
Department issues a building permit. The owner will be solely responsible
for constructing, maintaining and repairing the same. The owner will
not permit the same to constitute a hazard to the health or safety
of the general public or to interfere with the use of the City's
property. The owner will conform with all applicable laws, ordinances
and regulations.
[Added 6-20-1991 by Ord. No. 79-23]
Each person wishing to build a ramp for the handicapped shall
present to the City a schematic design of the ramp detailing the dimensions
of the ramp, which design must be approved by the Governor's
Committee on Concerns for the Handicapped and by the City's Engineer
before the Zoning Department issues a building permit.
[Added 6-20-1991 by Ord. No. 79-23]
The owner agrees to execute an Indemnification form indemnifying,
defending and holding harmless the City from any claims, actions,
suits or other proceedings arising from or out of the negligent acts
or omissions of the failure of owner to perform any act or duty required
of the owner herein.
No sign, awning or other device from any store or other building shall be constructed by any person to project over any sidewalk. See § 347-28.
No vehicle or livestock shall be driven or allowed to enter
upon or cross any sidewalk or parkway, except over properly constructed
driveways or with express permission of the abutting owner of any
such sidewalk or parkway, or any park within the City limits.
No person shall tether or leave any animal along any street,
alley, park, or parkway within the City limits.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any person to allow
or permit the branches or limbs of any trees or shrubbery being or
growing upon the lanes or premises owned or occupied by such person,
firm or corporation in the City of Las Vegas, or in the parkway in
front of such property or premises, to so grow or extend into the
space along or above such sidewalk or street as to interfere with
the passage along such sidewalk or street of any pedestrians, trains,
vehicles or other conveyances in the ordinary use therefor to grow
or protrude above said sidewalk or street nearer than seven feet upward
from the surface of said sidewalk or street.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall refuse or fail to abate any of the nuisances declared in § 377-26 of this chapter, within three days after having received notice from the City Manager of the City of Las Vegas to abate the same, shall be deemed in violation of this chapter, and each failure or refusal to remove the same after such a notice shall constitute a separate violation.
A.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any adjacent property
owner to allow weeds or grass to grow to a height of more than four
inches in the right-of-way between the curb and property line and
between the middle of the alley right-of-way and the property line.
B.
The owner of the adjacent property to the right-of-way is responsible
for maintaining the right-of-way.
It is unlawful for any person, either as tenant or owner of
any property, to allow any snow or ice to be or remain upon the sidewalk
abutting or adjoining any property or premises owned or occupied by
any such person for longer than 24 hours after the said snow shall
have fallen or the ice shall have formed.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to build, cause
to be built or maintain a barbed wire fence along the line of streets
for the purpose of enclosing lots or portions thereof, whether improved
or otherwise, or use the same for an enclosure to protect trees along
the streets of the City.
