No person shall play ball on any of the streets or alleys of the City.
Such practice is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
[Amended 7-14-2003 by Ord. No. 693]
A. No person shall ride or drive any animal or any motor vehicle
over or across any sidewalk in the City, and no person shall operate a bicycle,
a skateboard, rollerblades, or any other self-propelled conveyance upon the
sidewalk of the business district of the City.
B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the use of conveyances
designed and used by handicapped persons, so long as the individuals using
such conveyances do not exceed the speed of the normal flow of pedestrians
using the sidewalks.
[Amended 9-23-1977 by Ord.
No. 226-77]
No person shall unnecessarily and willfully obstruct or interfere with
the travel upon any sidewalk or public thoroughfare. No person shall unnecessarily
and willfully obstruct or interfere with free ingress and/or egress to any
building or structure without first obtaining the consent of the owner or
lessee thereof.
No person shall erect or maintain, upon any street, sidewalk, curb or
gutter in front of or along any dwelling house, store or other building or
premises, any signboard, bulletin board or any obstruction of any type whatsoever
which will interfere with the complete and full use, at all times, for the
public of any street, sidewalk, curb or gutter.
No person shall cast upon or discharge or cause to be cast upon or discharged,
into or upon any of the streets, alleys or public places in the City, in or
by any vehicle or in or by any other means or manner whatsoever, any dirt,
coal, mud, clay, silt, culm, coal dirt, rock, coal products, sand, cinders
or any other material deemed offensive; any animal carcass, fish, oyster shells,
garbage, slaughterhouse offal, broken glass, crockery, china, cuttings of
tin, sheet iron or other metal, nails or any other kind of material calculated
to wound, bruise or maim man or beast; vegetables, fruit peelings or rinds
and shells thereof; ashes, rubbish of any kind, garbage, pasteboard boxes,
paper advertisements and handbills, show bills, wastepaper or sweepings, or
permit the same to be or remain deposited in any location in any of the streets,
alleys, highways or public places in the City.
No person shall permit any drainage or other matter of an offensive
character or rainwater drained from buildings to flow over the sidewalks.
No person shall place any obstruction upon the sidewalks, and all owners
or occupiers of real estate shall remove forthwith all obstructions placed
on such sidewalks by them or by their predecessors in title and shall permit
no weeds to grow upon such sidewalks.
[Amended 12-12-1994 by Ord.
No. 526]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be
fined not more than $600 and, in default of payment of the fine and costs,
be imprisoned not more than 90 days.