[Adopted as Secs. 32-33, 32-34, 32-37, 23-25,
23-26, 23-8, 23-24, 23-20, 23-14 and 23-15 of the 1963 City Code (Ch.
222, Art. IX, of the 1980 Code)]
No person shall suffer any cellar door or doorway
or other entrance from any sidewalk, street or way into any cellar,
basement or area below the level of such sidewalk, street or way to
be kept open when not in immediate use, nor when in immediate use,
after the beginning of twilight, unless a good and sufficient light
be constantly kept at the entrance of such door or doorway or before
such other entrance.
Except as otherwise provided by law or ordinance,
no person shall allow any cellar, vault, well, cistern, cesspool or
other opening to be left uncovered in or near any street or way unless
the same shall be enclosed by a safe and sufficient fence, curb or
guard, and every opening or area in any street, way or public place
shall be covered and guarded in such manner as the Superintendent
of Highways shall direct.
From the first day of April until the first
day of November in each year between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00
p.m., and from the first day of November to the first day of April
next following, no person shall wash or cause to be washed any wall
or window of any building in such manner as to cause the discharge
of water upon any sidewalk or way devoted to the public use.[1]
[Amended 4-20-1971 by Doc. 103]
No person shall coast or slide down, across,
in, on, over or along any public street or way or any private way
open to vehicular travel.
[Amended 9-21-1976 by Doc. 153; 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
No person shall ride or ride in, drive or pass
with, push or draw any bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, coach, cart,
wheelbarrow, handcart or hand carriage or any carriage of burden or
pleasure in or along any sidewalk in the City except the sidewalks
on both sides on Main Street from Interstate Route 495 to Plaistow
Road, provided that this section shall not apply to baby carriages
or carriages used for the transportation of children and drawn or
pushed by hand, or to manual or electric wheelchairs.
No person shall hoist any thing or material
from any street, way or sidewalk into or onto a building adjoining
the same so that the thing or material while being hoisted shall overhang
any part of the street, way or sidewalk without a permit therefor
from the Chief of Police, and then only by the use of such apparatus
and in such manner as shall be approved as safe and satisfactory by
the Chief of Police. No approval on the part of the Chief of Police
of the apparatus for or of the manner of hoisting any such thing or
material or any permit granted by him therefor shall be held in any
way to relieve the person hoisting such thing or material from full
responsibility for or liability resulting from any such operation.
No person shall suffer his coal, firewood or
other fuel to remain in or upon any sidewalk, street or way, and no
person shall saw or pile wood, or place or leave a sawhorse or any
other obstruction on any sidewalk, street or way to the hindrance,
annoyance or inconvenience of travelers or passers.
No person shall, within the limits of any street
or highway, play at any game of ball or football or throw any snowball,
stick, stone or other missile, drive or roll a hoop, fly a kite or
balloon, shoot with bows and arrows or engage in any other game, amusement
or exercise interfering with the safe and convenient use of street
or way by any persons traveling or passing along the same, nor shall
any person promote or encourage the fighting of birds or animals in
any street or way.
