[Adopted 5-21-1966 by Ord. No. 72-66 as Art. 729 of the 1966 Code]
A. 
No society or organization shall parade or cause to be conducted a parade on the streets of the City without securing a permit therefor from the Mayor. The application for such permit shall state the streets on which it is desired to parade and the probable time of commencement and ending of such parade. Such permit, if granted, shall be free of charge.
B. 
No person shall cause any vehicle to run through or obstruct any authorized street parade.
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.
A. 
The owner or occupant of any dwelling house, store, building or vacant lot and every person or agent having charge of such property shall, within the first 12 hours after every fall of snow or sleet or formation of ice upon the sidewalks, cause the same to be removed from the sidewalks to within one foot of the curbline opposite the entire frontage of such dwelling house, store, building or vacant lot.
B. 
No person shall cast, discharge, throw, shovel or place or cause to be cast, discharged, thrown, shoveled or placed into or onto the traveled portion of any street or alley, by any means whatsoever, any snow, slush or ice.
[Amended 1-24-1968 by Ord. No. 103-68]
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.
A. 
No person shall erect a stand or any other structure on the streets or sidewalks to sell or offer for sale therefrom any goods, wares, merchandise or produce, and no person shall place any trucks, vehicles or any other thing whatsoever upon the streets or sidewalks and sell therefrom or offer to sell any goods, wares, merchandise and produce.
B. 
This section shall not apply to charitable, religious, humane or welfare organizations or societies, including fire companies, organized solely for charitable, philanthropic, religious and humane purposes. However, such charitable organizations or societies shall, before using the streets or sidewalks, secure the consent of the Mayor.
[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.