[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]
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Editor's Note: Original § 222-51, Selling in streets, and § 222-52, Stalls and booths for selling purposes, which immediately followed this section, were deleted 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76. See now Ch. 191, Peddling and Soliciting.
[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.