[CC 1984 §18-124; Ord. No. 11-236 §§1, 2, 7-20-1992]
[Code 1974 §220.360; CC 1984 §25-1]
Every person who shall cast or throw into or upon or allow to
run into or upon any street, alley, public place or sidewalk, or into
any lot or premise of another, any offal, carcass, putrid matter,
blood or liquid, or any noxious or offensive liquid or matter or any
refuse matter or substance, animal or vegetable, shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation.
[CC 1984 §25-1.5; Ord. No. 8-1AA §1, 9-18-1989]
A.
Every
person who shall cast or track into or upon or allow to run into or
upon any street, alley, public place or sidewalk, or into any lot
or premises of another, any mud, dirt or debris shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation.
B.
Any
of the above acts by an agent, contractor or subcontractor of a person
may be attributed to said person.
C.
Any
person violating any provision of this Section shall be guilty of
an ordinance violation and shall upon conviction be punished by a
fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
[CC 1984 §25-2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove snow from any
private property onto any public street or alley or any other public
place in the City.
[Code 1974 §220.250; CC 1984 §25-3]
Whoever shall, on any street, alley or thoroughfare of this
City, engage in any sport or exercise likely to cause injury to any
person passing over any such street, alley or thoroughfare, or to
hinder the passage of traffic over, thereupon shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation.
[CC 1984 §25-4]
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the garage business
or the business of repairing motor vehicles to do or permit any work
upon any such vehicle in the streets or upon the sidewalks of the
City in front of or in the vicinity of his/her garage or repair shop.
[Code 1974 §220.210; CC 1984 §25-5]
A.
The
Mayor or any authorized agent or representative of the City is empowered
to close any street, alley, thoroughfare or public place within this
City, or to withdraw the same from public use, temporarily and during
the period as public work thereon shall make such action necessary.
Whenever the Mayor or any authorized agent or representative of the
City shall order any such street, alley, thoroughfare or public place
withdrawn from public use, a written or printed notice in large and
conspicuous letters shall be posed thereupon at each entrance to each
block stating that the street, alley, thoroughfare or public place
is closed and withdrawn from public use.
B.
Any
person using or attempting to use or driving, attempting to drive
any animal or vehicle upon or along any street, alley, thoroughfare
or public place closed and withdrawn from public use, or who shall,
without lawful authority, remove, destroy or mutilate any sign posted
as provided in this Section, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance
violation.
[Code 1974 §220.190; CC 1984 §25-6]
A.
No
person shall drive any heavy tractor, steam engine or heavy equipment
over and across any sidewalk, curbing or crossing within this City
which is likely to break or injure the sidewalk, curbing or crossing,
unless the wheels of the vehicle be covered with rubber or with other
similar substance or unless the sidewalk, curbing or crossing be sufficiently
and fully protected by the laying down of planks or other material
which will prevent injury thereto.
B.
Any
person violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation and shall be held responsible to the City
for the cost of repairing any break or injury to any sidewalk, curbing
or crossing caused by the violation of this Section.
[Code 1974 §§220.080, 220.090, 220.220, 220.260;
CC 1984 §25-7]
A.
Flow Of Water. Every person who shall obstruct the passage
of any water, or suffer the same to be done by any person under his/her
control, so as to cause it to flow upon any public street, alley or
sidewalk and shall fail to remove such obstruction when required to
do so by a Police Officer shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
B.
Sidewalks. Any person occupying any store, shop or office
on either side of any street in this City shall be required to keep
the sidewalk in front of or alongside of his/her premises free from
any obstruction or thing tending to obstruct the sidewalk; and anyone
failing to comply with the requirements of this Subsection shall be
deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
C.
Awnings. All awnings erected in this City shall be required
to extend entirely over the sidewalk over which they are constructed
and they shall be at least seven (7) feet from the sidewalk at the
lowest point; provided, movable awnings may be erected over doors
and windows but they shall be at least seven (7) feet from the sidewalk
at the lowest point. Any person violating the provisions of this Subsection
shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
D.
Doors And Gates. No garage or shed doors or gates shall
be permitted to remain open so that they obstruct the use of any sidewalk
in this City by pedestrians.
[Code 1974 §§220.280, 565.080; CC 1984 §25-8]
A.
Whoever
shall himself/herself, or by another, place upon any street or other
public place in this City any obstruction not authorized by ordinance,
or make any excavation in any such places without lawful authority,
or displace or remove any stones, stakes or other landmarks placed
by any officer of the City under authority thereof, or injure or deface
any property shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
B.
Any
person who shall attempt to construct any street or alley under the
terms of this Chapter without having first obtained a permit for the
same, and any person, having obtained a permit for the construction
of any street or alley under this Chapter, who shall fail to conform
to the plans and specifications as approved by the City Council for
the street or alley shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
[CC 1984 §25-9; Ord.
No. 6-79 §20, 3-16-1987]
A.
All
driveways or crossings over ditches connecting streets and highways
with the private property shall be made under the supervision of the
Superintendent of Streets.
B.
Any
person or persons who shall willfully or knowingly obstruct or damage
any public or private road by obstructing the side or cross drainage
or ditches thereof, or by turning water upon such road or right-of-way,
or by throwing or depositing brush, trees, stumps, logs or any refuse
or debris whatsoever in said road, or on the sides or in the ditches
thereof, or by fencing across or upon the right-of-way of the same,
or by planting any hedge or erecting any advertising signs within
the lines established for such road, or by changing the location thereof,
or who shall obstruct said road, highway or drains in any other manner
whatsoever shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
[Ord. No. 6-37B1 §§1 — 4, 11-16-1998]
A.
PARENT
PUBLIC PLACE
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms
shall have these prescribed meanings:
A person who is the natural parent, adoptive parent, guardian
or stepparent of another person.
The exterior of any publicly or privately owned building or real property including, but not limited to, parking lots, steps, access walkways and grounds excepting, however, City sidewalks which parallel City streets lying outside of the business district of the City of Farmington as defined in Section 300.020 of this Code.
B.
No
person shall ride a skateboard nor use roller skates or roller blades
in a public place.
C.
No
parent of a minor shall permit, or by insufficient control to allow,
any minor to use skateboards, roller skates or roller blades in any
public place.
D.
Permissive Use. The owner of a privately or publicly owned
building or ground may give permission for the use of skateboards,
roller skates or roller blades upon the property of the owner.
[Code 1974 §220.160; CC 1984 §30-1]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for the owner or occupier of any real estate in
the City to maintain or allow any tree or shrub, or any limb or branch
thereof, to overhang any sidewalk, street or other public place in
such a way as to impede or interfere with traffic or travel on any
such public way or place, or which has become likely to fall on or
across any such public way or place.
B.
Any
such tree or shrub, or any limb or branch thereof, described in this
Section shall be trimmed or removed by the owner or occupier of the
premises on which it grows in order to remove any such condition.
[CC 1984 §30-2]
It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupier of any real estate
in the City to maintain or allow any tree or shrub to grow or stand
upon his/her real estate when by reason of disease, injury, age or
any other condition it has become likely for any such tree or shrub
or any limb or branch thereof to fall, whereby injury or damage might
be caused to some person or neighboring structure or improvement.
[CC 1984 §23-3]
It is unlawful for any person to write, paint or print any sign,
advertisement or other writing upon any sidewalk in the City.
[Ord. No. 4-48, 6-13-2019]
It shall be unlawful for roof drains and sump pumps to be drained
or discharged in a manner that creates ice or algae accumulation on
City sidewalks, walkways, roads and/or streets; or creates the ponding
or accumulation of water or ice on or over adjoining property.
