[Adopted 1-9-1928 as Sections 67, 69, 71, 73, 78, 82, 86,
87, 93 and Section 4 of Article VI of the Ordinances of the Village
of Coxsackie]
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person shall operate, drive, propel, place
or leave any motor vehicle, motorcycle, wagon, truck, sleigh or similar
vehicle or lead, drive, ride or leave any horse or other animal upon
or along any public sidewalk or footpath in the Village of Coxsackie
or so near to such public sidewalk or footpath as to interfere with
or obstruct travel thereon; provided, however, that this section shall
not apply to any person necessarily driving a vehicle or animal across
such public sidewalk or footpath to or from any adjoining premises,
or to any person drawing or pushing a small carriage, cart or sleigh
commonly used for the carrying of children, or to any person riding
in, operating or pushing a wheel chair commonly used by persons who
are sick, crippled or infirm.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person shall saw, cut or split any wood or
lumber or deposit or permit to be deposited any coal, wood, lumber,
furniture, groceries, boxes, barrels, merchandise or any other substance
whatsoever on any public street, avenue, sidewalk or crosswalk in
the Village of Coxsackie, except when necessary and for immediate
removal; nor shall any person leave or permit to be left any coal,
wood, lumber, furniture, groceries, merchandise, boxes, barrels or
any other substance whatsoever on any public street, avenue, sidewalk
or crosswalk in the Village of Coxsackie for more than one hour.
[Added 2-9-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
A.
The owners
of land fronting upon the streets of the Village are required to keep
the portion of the street between said land and the center of the
street cleaned of rubbish or other accumulations thereon injurious
to the use or appearance thereof.
B.
The owners
of land fronting upon the streets of the Village are required to keep
the portion of the street between said land and the center of the
street free from shrubbery, trees, including branches thereof, and
other objects that would interfere with normal passersby traversing
upon said street or sidewalk between the owner’s land and the
center of the street.
C.
No Village
resident, or his or her agents or employees, shall shovel snow, snowblow
or plow snow onto any public street, alley, way, park or other public
lands.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person shall place any box, flower pot or
other article upon any windowsill or projection of any building fronting
on any public street or avenue or sidewalk and within 10 feet of the
line thereof in the Village of Coxsackie unless such article shall
be suitably secured so as to prevent it from falling.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall conduct
or permit to be conducted from any building owned or controlled by
him or it, through any pipe, gutter, trough, spout or otherwise, any
water upon or over any public sidewalk in the Village of Coxsackie;
nor shall any person owning or controlling any building construct
or permit to be constructed any roof or eaves or part thereof so that
the same will project over any public sidewalk or public street, unless
there shall be attached to such building eaves, trough or gutter or
other device so placed as to prevent the water from falling therefrom
upon such sidewalk or street.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall construct
or use or permit to be constructed or used any cellarway leading from
any public street, avenue or sidewalk in the Village of Coxsackie,
unless the same shall have trapdoors so constructed as to be on a
level with the sidewalk or with the platform, if any, in front of
the building where such cellarway is located so that it will be entirely
safe for persons to pass over the same; nor shall any person, firm
or corporation keep open or permit to be kept open any trapdoor or
grate in any sidewalk in the Village of Coxsackie, except while the
same is necessarily and actually in use for the receipt or delivery
of goods or fuel or other property and while the same is properly
guarded to prevent persons from walking or falling into the same.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall deposit
or place any lumber, wood, iron, sand, lime, brick, stone, concrete
blocks or other building materials on any public street, avenue or
sidewalk in the Village of Coxsackie without first having obtained
permission from the Board of Trustees of the said Village so to do,
which permission shall be evidenced by a resolution duly adopted at
a meeting of the Board of Trustees and entered in its minutes. Whenever
the Board of Trustees may consider it advisable to grant to any person,
firm or corporation the permission to deposit any building materials
on any part of any public street or sidewalk, such permission may
be given by the Board of Trustees for such time and upon such conditions
as in its judgment shall be deemed advisable. Said building materials
shall not occupy more than 1/3 of the width of the street nearest
the building under construction, and under no circumstances shall
such materials be so placed as to prevent or hinder free access to
any fire hydrant; nor shall any person, firm or corporation permit
any sand, gravel, cement, stone, brick, lumber, iron, wood or other
materials to be and remain in or upon any public street, avenue or
sidewalk at night, unless he or it shall keep or cause to be kept
a lamp or lamps, with red globes, continually lighted during each
night upon or near such material so as to distinctly cast light upon
the same and to warn travelers of its presence on such street or sidewalk.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall erect or
cause to be erected any building, piazza, steps, fence or other structure
or part thereof so as to encroach upon any public street, avenue or
sidewalk in the Village of Coxsackie.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall hang, place,
erect or maintain any awning over any public street, avenue or sidewalk
or any part thereof or in any public place in the Village of Coxsackie,
unless the same shall be made of cloth and is hung or placed so as
to be at least seven feet in the clear above the surface of such street,
avenue, sidewalk or place.
[Amended 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
No person, firm or corporation shall make or
hang any gate so that the same will open and swing over any public
sidewalk or street in the Village of Coxsackie.
Except under police direction, no vehicle shall
remain backed wholly or partly to the curb for the purpose of discharging
or receiving merchandise for any period of time longer than the actual
loading or unloading reasonably requires and then only in such position
as not to obstruct traffic.
[Added 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 27-1979]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punishable
by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or both.
