[Adopted 10-12-1976 as Secs. 17-1 through 17-4 of Ch. 17
of the 1976 Code]
A.
No person engaged in excavation, repairs to structures
or grounds or construction or having charge or control of excavation,
repairs to structures or grounds or construction or who may be engaged
in or have charge or control of conveying material to or from excavations,
repairs to structures or grounds or construction shall deposit or
permit to be deposited in any manner upon the surface of any street,
alley, avenue, highway, footway, sidewalk or parking or other public
space within the City, either by placing, spilling, dropping or tracking
from the wheels of vehicles or from the feet of animals or otherwise,
any earth, clay, mud, sand, gravel or other material. If any such
deposit occurs, every person whose duty it is under this section to
prevent such deposit shall promptly remove the same. All macadamized
or broken stone roadways adjacent to excavations or traversed by vehicles
either in the process of conveying material from an excavation or
in returning from the place of deposit to the place of excavation
shall be covered with planking so far as may be required to prevent
any mud, earth, clay or other material from the excavation or from
the place of deposit from reaching the surface of such roadway.
B.
No one being the owner, driver, manager or conductor
of any vehicle shall carry or convey or cause to be carried or conveyed
in such vehicle any coal, earth, sand, gravel, broken stone, dirt,
ashes, paper and other rubbish or any loose fluid or offensive articles
or matter or any articles whatsoever within the City so that the same
shall or may be scattered, dropped, let fall, blown or spilled therefrom;
and all vehicles conveying combustible refuse or foul, dusty or offensive
matter of any sort shall have tight bodies and be closely and securely
covered. All vehicles conveying wastepaper and wastepaper products,
baled, sacked or otherwise, shall be closely and securely covered.
[Amended 5-11-1992 by Ord. No. O-4-92]
It shall hereby be the duty and obligation of
the adult occupants of property abutting a sidewalk, within 48 hours
after the snow has fallen, to remove the snow. In the case of a multiunit
building with more than one occupant, it shall be the duty of the
lessor to remove the snow. Any adult occupant of property abutting
a sidewalk in a public right-of-way, lessor of a multiunit building
or tenant obligated by the lessor who fails to remove the snow from
the abutting sidewalk within 48 hours after the snow has fallen shall
be guilty of a violation of this Code.
No exceptions to this article may be granted,
other than those specifically stated herein.
[Amended 5-11-1992 by Ord. No. O-4-92]
Any person aggrieved by any decision of the
Code Enforcement Officer or any agency acting under the provisions
of this article may, within 30 days of the notice of the Code Enforcement
Officer's decision, request a hearing before the Mayor and Council.
Any person aggrieved by the action of the Council may appeal to the
Circuit Court within 30 days of the notice of the Council's decision.
[Added 5-11-1992 by Ord. No. O-4-92]
Violation of any provision of this article shall be deemed a municipal infraction and shall be punishable as provided in § 1-20B of this Code.
