The owner or occupant of any premises shall keep the contiguous sidewalks free from dirt, filth, weeds, wastes and obstructions.
No person shall erect or hang or permit to be erected or hung or maintained upon any building owned or occupied by him an awning or canopy, any part of which shall project in, over or upon any of the streets, sidewalks or public places unless such awning or canopy is at least seven feet above the sidewalk upon such street or public place.
[Amended 10-21-2013 by L.L. No. 12-2013[1]]
No person who is the owner, lessee or occupant of any premises adjoining any street, avenue or highway shall place or keep or permit to be placed or kept on any sidewalk in front of, adjoining or adjacent to such premises any goods, wares or merchandise, unless a sidewalk vending permit is issued in accordance with Chapter 247, Sidewalk Cafes, Vending and Musicians, Article II, Sidewalk Vending. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit persons from placing goods, wares or merchandise or household furniture on the sidewalks for purposes of loading and unloading.
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Editor’s Note: This local law also provided a sunset date of 12-1-2014.
No merchant or purveyor of foods or other goods shall permit wheeled carts or conveyors provided by him for the convenience of patrons to remain on the sidewalks while not in use. Every such vehicle left on a sidewalk or street shall be considered an obstacle to traffic and a hazard to pedestrians and may, without notice, be seized by the police and take to the Department of Public Works, subject thereafter to restitution to its owner upon payment of reasonable charges of transportation and storage as adopted by resolution of the Board of Trustees[1] for every vehicle thus seized, removed and held.
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Editor's Note: Such fee is on file and available for inspection in the office of the Village Clerk during regular office hours.
Any person owning, leasing or in possession of lands in the Village shall maintain them at a level or grade not lower than the level established for the adjoining sidewalk or sidewalk line, as fixed by the Superintendent of Highways, to a distance of not less than six feet from the sidewalk or sidewalk line, unless he shall have protected or walled off said land from the sidewalk or street by a fence of such height and construction as shall have been approved by the Building Inspector.
No person shall deposit upon any of the sidewalks in the Village or on the streets or other public places of the Village any discarded containers, wrappings or newspapers or any refuse, rubbish or other waste materials except as permitted in connection with the collection of garbage.
No person engaged or connected with a building operation shall obstruct any sidewalk in the Village. If the building operation shall necessitate the temporary closing of such sidewalk to public use, upon application to the Board of Trustees at a meeting thereof, the Board of Trustees may authorize such temporary closing of the sidewalk, subject to such restrictions and conditions as it may impose.
[Amended 12-2-2013 by L.L. No. 14-2013]
A. 
No person not otherwise authorized by law to do so shall erect or maintain on or over any sidewalk or street within the Village any telephone, electric-light or electric-power, cable television or other poles or string wire over any sidewalk or street or over or in front of any building in the Village without a permit from the Superintendent of Public Works. No fee shall be charged for any such permit.
B. 
All telephone, electric-light or electric-power, cable television or other poles located upon a street in the Village shall be suitably marked to indicate the owner of such poles.
C. 
All utility poles shall be structurally sound and capable of standing in the vertical position and carrying the utility service lines attached to the pole without the support, direct or indirect, of any other utility pole. Guy wires may be used to support a utility pole, but no guy wire shall cross any road, street, sidewalk or paved or unpaved pedestrian walkway in such a manner as to pose a hazard to vehicles or pedestrians.
D. 
All cables, wires, service lines, pipes, conduits, fixtures, appliances or any other element of the delivery system of any public or private utility service must be securely attached to a utility pole or structure. Cables, wires, service lines, pipes, conduits, fixtures, appliances or any other element of the delivery system of any public or private utility service must be set at a minimum height of 12 feet above grade when running perpendicular or across a curb or sidewalk and a minimum height of 14 feet above grade when crossing over a road, street or highway.
Driveways and parking areas shall be so constructed as to prevent materials used in the construction thereof from being scattered or washed upon adjacent sidewalks.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Ord. 7.24, Gasoline service stations, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 5-6-1991 by L.L. No. 5-1991.
[Amended 11-6-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
The owner and occupant of each and every premises within the Village shall keep the adjacent sidewalk area between the curb and property line in good care, free from brush, weeds, long grass, rubbish and other materials and shall keep the grass and other low-growing plants thereon cut. The following details plants and lawn-type flowers that are allowed or prohibited.
A. 
Allowed plants between curbs and sidewalks. This includes lawn grasses and other lawn-type low-growing plants that do not exceed four to six inches in height, which do not create a tripping or entanglement hazard. Examples of allowed plants include but are not limited to lawn-grasses, mosses, clovers and other plants such as sporadically spaced bulb-flowers to naturalize a lawn area, such as crocuses, snow drops and other similar plants.
B. 
Prohibited plants between curbs and sidewalks. This includes plants that may create a barrier, trip hazard or entanglement hazard and are prohibited between the curb and the sidewalk. Such plants include but are not limited to shrubs, decorative plants, grasses and flowers that exceed six inches in height, vines and other similar plants. This also includes noxious or poisonous plants such as poison ivy, poison oak, stinging nettles and other plants that could cause injury to persons entering and exiting vehicles or crossing between the sidewalk and the street.