[R.O. 1992 §§ 210.180, 210.190,
210.200; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. Posting
Generally.
1.
No person shall post up handbills
or advertisements on any building not his/her own without the consent
of the owner or occupant thereof.
2.
Posting of handbills without permission
is an infraction.
B. Attachment
To Utility Poles.
1.
It shall be unlawful to place or
attach bill posters or other advertising matter on any electric light
pole or telephone pole within the City.
2.
Attaching advertising matter to utility
poles is an infraction.
C. Destroying,
Removing, Etc.
1.
No person shall remove, take down,
deface, mark, injure or destroy any handbill or advertisement posted
or lawfully put up by another before the same shall have expired.
2.
Destroying or removing handbills
is an infraction.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.210; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall bathe, wash or swim when
nude in any watercourse, pond or pool of water within the City.
B. Bathing nude is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.220; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall bury the body of any person
within the City at any place other than in an established cemetery.
B. Burial in an unauthorized area is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.230; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No undertaker or other person having charge
or control of any burial shall permit any human body to be interred
at a depth of less than six (6) feet below the surface of the ground.
B. Burial of a person at a depth of less than
six (6) feet is an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.240; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall keep open any cellar door
or grading of a vault on any street, alley, avenue or upon any sidewalk
thereof, except when necessarily opened to receive into or discharge
articles therefrom, or shall leave the same open after sunset.
B. Leaving open cellar doors is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.250; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall willfully destroy, disfigure
or injure any wall, fence, hedge, monument, tombstone, tree or shrubbery
around or within any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground or shall
use such cemetery, graveyard or burial ground for any other purposes
than a burial ground.
B. Damaging cemetery property is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.270; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. Dance halls within the City at which an
admission charge or donation is received directly or indirectly shall
be illuminated with an intensity of not less than three (3) footcandles
during the hours of dancing in such hall.
B. The person in charge of the premises shall be responsible for the maintenance of the lighting requirements set out in Subsection
(A) of this Section.
C. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.280; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall put or cause to be put
any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof or any offal or other
filth into a well, cistern, spring, drinking fountain, trough or basin
used for drinking purposes or into any brook or branch within this
City which is or may be used by the public for drinking purposes.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.290; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person being the owner or occupant of
any factory, tannery, distillery, livery or other stable, barn, packing
house or slaughter house within this City shall suffer or permit the
same to become nauseous, foul or offensive.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.300; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall mark, paint or stain any
wall, fence, post, bridge or building not his/her own whether belonging
to the City or to private individuals without lawful authority.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.310; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall in the streets or in the
City discharge any rockets, powder, fireworks, squib, firecracker
or any other dangerous device, provided that the City Council shall
have power to authorize the discharge of fireworks upon special request.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.320; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
throw or place any cans, bottles, trash, liquids or other materials,
whatsoever into any lake, swimming pool, pond or creek or other public
place within the City.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.330; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
swim in any pond or lake upon City property or to enter such water
for such purpose or to wade in any such water except when fishing.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.340; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful in this City for the
owner or person having charge of any barroom or saloon where intoxicating
liquors are sold or given away or any licensed hall, alley, billiard
room or poolroom where licensed pool or billiard tables are kept and
used to permit any minor to loiter, loaf, lounge in or hang about
any such places without the permission of the parents or guardian
of such minor first having been obtained.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.350; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. Any person elected or appointed to any
public office of this City who shall be intoxicated while in the performance
of any official act or duty or shall become so intoxicated as to be
incapacitated to perform any official act or duty at the time or in
the manner required by law shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance
violation and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit his/her office.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.360; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall mount or climb upon, enter
on or hang onto any passenger, freight, baggage or other car or hand
car or locomotive engine while the same is in motion or is attached
to or is forming a part of any train or cars or to any locomotive
engine whether the same be in motion or is standing on any railroad
track provided that nothing in this Section shall be so construed
as to prevent any person from entering any railroad car or upon any
railroad engine who has lawful authority to do so or who does so for
legitimate travel or business.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.370; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall put or cause to be put
any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof or any offal or other
filth into any reservoir, water tank or tower used or for the purpose
of supplying the inhabitants of this City with water or shall in any
manner or by any means defile, attempt to defile or cause to be defiled
the water contained in any such reservoir, water tank or tower.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.380; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall remove, take down, deface,
mark, injure or destroy any sign belonging to another without the
consent of the owner thereof.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.410; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person owning
any trees or shrubs to plant, maintain or grow the same on the sidewalk
portion of the street or highway at a distance of less than twenty
(20) feet from any fire plug in the City, provided that this Section
shall not apply to trees now growing and maintained within the prohibited
distance above defined unless the City Council finds it necessary
that the same be removed by reason of constituting a public hazard.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.420; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
plant, set out or grow any tree or shrub or maintain the same on the
sidewalk or parkway portion of any public street or highway in the
City at a distance of not less than twenty (20) feet from the corner
of any block or any such public street or highway. Such measurement
shall be computed from the point of intersection of two (2) lines
extended parallel with the curblines or the intersecting streets producing
such corners. This Section shall not affect present established trees
or shrubs unless the City Council finds them a special hazard.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.430; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. Whenever the City Council provided for
the construction of any public street, guttering or curbing for sidewalks
and it becomes necessary to remove any tree, shrub or other plant
growing, extending or standing upon or within such street, sidewalk,
guttering or curbing the City Engineer shall be authorized to remove
the same. The same provision shall apply wherever it becomes necessary
to repair or reconstruct such sidewalk, street, guttering or curbing.
B. Whenever it becomes necessary to trim or
remove any such tree, shrub or plant in order to comply with the provisions
of this Chapter, the City Engineer shall supervise such work with
the approval of the City Council. He/she shall be authorized to employ
such assistance as may be necessary to do the work.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.440; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
plant or set out any trees, shrubs or other plants in the public streets
or sidewalks without first obtaining a permit to do the same from
the Street Committee and such Committee shall not grant such permit
unless it complies with all of the provisions of this Chapter and
unless the planting of such trees, shrubs or other plants do not constitute
a hazard.
B. Failure to obtain the required permit prior
to planting shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.460; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
enter upon or climb upon any part of the City water tank or water
reservoir without the permission of the Superintendent of the Water
Department.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.470; Ord. No. 5281 § 2, 9-17-1979]
A. No person shall willfully molest, disturb,
break, damage or in any manner wrongfully interfere with or injure
the engines, boilers, pumps, towers, reservoirs, tanks, water gates
or valves, mains, pipes, fire plugs, hydrants, drinking fountains
or any other appliance or machinery belonging to the waterworks of
this City or shall in any manner impede the flow of water through
any of the water mains or pipes within this City.
B. Violation of this Section is an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 1992 § 210.560; Ord. No. 06-10049 § 3, 7-12-2006; Ord. No. 06-10136 § 4, 12-13-2006]
A. For purposes of this Section, the following
term shall have the meaning below:
RESIDENCE
Any building which is designed or used exclusively for residential
purposes, except hotels and motels.
B. It shall be unlawful to operate any power
tool, garden tool, lawn mower, snow blower or other similar equipment
or device within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence except between
the following hours:
October 1 through May 31
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7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
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June 1 through September 30
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6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Monday through
Friday
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7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Saturday
and Sunday
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[R.O. 1992 § 210.570; Ord. No. 06-10049 § 2, 7-12-2006; Ord. No. 06-10136 § 3, 12-13-2006]
A. For purposes of this Section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
EMERGENCY WORK
Work necessary to restore property to a safe condition following
a public calamity or work required to protect person or property from
imminent exposure to danger.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
Any vehicle or other device used in construction, including,
but not limited to, large trucks, dump trucks, graders, bulldozers,
pneumatic hammers, loaders, excavators, trenchers, backhoes, earth-moving
equipment, dozers or air compressors.
RESIDENCE
Any building which is designed or used exclusively for residential
purposes, except hotels and motels.
B. No person or entity shall cause or allow
construction work of any kind that creates noise to include, but not
limited to, hammering, running of motors, mixing materials, the operation
of any heavy equipment, including, but not limited to, hauling, erection
(including excavation), demolition or grading equipment nor allow
the alteration or repair of any building or structure within one thousand
(1,000) feet of a residence other than between the following hours:
October 1 through May 31
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7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
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June 1 through September 30
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6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Monday through
Friday
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7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Saturday
and Sunday
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C. After sixty (60) calendar days after commencement
of the work, no person or entity shall cause or allow construction
work of any kind that creates noise, to include, but not limited to,
hammering, running of motors, mixing materials, the operation of any
heavy equipment, including, but not limited to, hauling, erection
(including excavation), demolition or grading equipment nor allow
the alteration or repair of any building or structure within one thousand
(1,000) feet of a residence other than between the following hours:
January 1 through December 31
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7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., Monday through
Friday
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D. The following shall constitute exceptions
to the time limitations specified in this Section:
1.
Emergency work to repair or maintain
public/private utility facilities;
2.
Emergency work to repair equipment
or facilities damaged or rendered inoperable as a direct result of
unavoidable damage or upset conditions;
3.
The repair, maintenance or construction
of public highway.