[Adopted 6-23-1944 (Ch. 147, Art. I, of the 1991 Code)]
It shall be unlawful to encumber the streets, sidewalks, lanes
or alleys within the City of Fulton with building material, wagons,
sleighs, barrels, boxes, merchandise or articles of any kind.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 4-1991]
Building material may be deposited on the street in front of
any lot to such extent and for such time only as the Commissioner
of Public Works, who is hereby authorized and empowered to grant such
permission in his discretion, shall so permit.
No awning overhanging any sidewalk in the City of Fulton shall
have any part thereof or anything hanging therefrom lower than seven
feet from the sidewalk.
No person shall light any fire in the public street or other
public place in the City of Fulton. No person lighting a bonfire or
other fire in the City of Fulton, except fires in properly installed
boilers, furnaces, stoves or heating equipment, shall leave the same
unless the same shall be attended and guarded by some person over
the age of 18 years.
No person shall hereafter plant or set between the sidewalk
and the curbline any tree or shrub without first having applied to
the Commissioner of Public Works for and received from him a permit
therefor, and no person having so applied for and received such permit
shall plant or set any tree or shrub of any species or in any position
not expressly provided for in such permit or prohibited in any of
the terms and conditions attached to or included in such permit.
No person shall hereafter plant, set or suffer to grow upon
his lands or in the space between the sidewalk and the curb adjoining
his lands or elsewhere any poplar tree or any tree of the poplar species.
Any such tree found to be growing may be ordered and caused to be
cut down or otherwise destroyed by the Commissioner of Public Works,
and it shall be the duty of every person upon whose lands such tree
may be growing to cut down or otherwise destroy the same immediately
upon and in accordance with the order and direction of the said Commissioner.
The Commissioner of Public Works shall have power to enter upon any
premises to cause any such tree to be cut down and destroyed. The
Commissioner of Public Works may, in his discretion, however, upon
special application by the owner of such land and in cases where in
his judgement no danger from roots to any sewer or drain is reasonably
apprehended, grant a special permit for the setting of poplar trees
on private land in fixed locations, provided that no such location
so fixed shall be nearer than 200 feet from the location of any drain
or sewer.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall maintain,
string or cause to be strung any telegraph, electric wires, cables,
electric feed wires of any street-railway company or other appliances
for conducting electricity along, over or upon any of the streets
of the City of Fulton or adjacent to any of the streets of said City
of Fulton so as to interfere with the growth of any shade tree or
in such a manner as to injure or cause to be injured any such shade
tree.
No person shall scatter ashes, wastepaper, handbills, circulars,
rubbish or other materials in any public street or place within the
City of Fulton, except by permission in writing from the Department
of Public Works.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
All sidewalks built in the streets of the City of Fulton shall
be laid and constructed only by a person approved by the Commissioner
of Public Works as having had sufficient experience in concrete construction
and knowledge thereof as satisfies the Commissioner of Public Works
that such walks will be properly and skillfully constructed in accordance
with the specifications established and which may hereafter be established
by the Commissioner of Public Works, and who shall have filed with
the Clerk/Chamberlain an undertaking, with one or more sureties approved
by said Commissioner, conditions that if such sidewalks or any sidewalk
constructed by said person shall prove unsatisfactory to the Commissioner
of Public Works or become dangerous or unfit for travel within the
period of five years, the same will be relaid, reconstructed or rebuilt
as the Commissioner of Public Works shall deem proper without expense
to the City of Fulton or the abutting owner, and if not so constructed,
rebuilt or repaired as directed by the Commissioner of Public Works,
such work may be done by the City of Fulton at the expense of said
person, who shall reimburse the City for the cost thereof.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 4-1991]
No person shall move or cause to permit to be moved any building
into, along or upon any street without written permission from the
Commissioner of Public Works, and then only under the supervision
and according to the directions of the Commissioner of Public Works.
[Added 3-4-1958; amended 1-17-1978; 5-2-2000 by L.L. No. 10-2000; 4-4-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
A. It shall be prohibited to place, push, shovel or deposit in any way
or cause to be pushed, placed, shoveled or deposited or suffer to
be pushed, placed, shoveled or deposited any snow, mud, debris, slush,
ice or other form of precipitation onto a sidewalk or public street
or any part thereof within the City of Fulton by any person, persons,
firm, association or corporation, individually or by agents, servants,
employees or independent contractors. If any such thing or substance
that might tend to make the surface of the street and/or sidewalk
unsafe for vehicular and/or pedestrian passageway or might cause damage
to other City property is placed, pushed, shoveled or deposited into
the street or onto the sidewalk in this City, it shall be the duty
of the driver of the vehicle and/or owner of the vehicle or any other
person, persons, firm, association or corporation, individually or
by agents, servants, employees or independent contractors, to forthwith
completely remove the same from the street or pavement.
B. No person or entity shall establish, maintain or carry on, upon or near a City street or other route of public travel, either on the land or water, any business, trade or manufacture which facilitates a violation of Subsection
A of this section.
C. On a corner lot in the public right-of-way, no person shall place,
push, shovel or deposit in any way or cause to be pushed, placed,
shoveled or deposited any snow, debris, building material or any other
item which exceeds three feet in height above street grade in such
a manner as to obstruct the line of sight for the safe operation of
a motor vehicle or bicycle by its operator while navigating the intersection.
D. Obstruction of fire hydrants is prohibited.
E. In addition, but not by way of substitution therefor or limitation
thereof, the City of Fulton may cause the removal of said obstructions
and assess the expense thereof upon the landowner or person responsible
and place said expense upon the assessment roll for the next ensuing
year if it remains unpaid when said assessment roll is adopted.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 4-1991; 4-4-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
Any violation of any provision or section of this article of
the Code of the City of Fulton shall constitute a violation and shall
be punishable by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250 and/or
imprisonment of not more than 15 days.