All public streets, sidewalks and other public ways in the City shall be under the supervision of the Director of Public Works. He shall be charged with the enforcement of all ordinance provisions relating to such public places (except traffic ordinances) and is hereby authorized to enforce such ordinances.
[Amended 11-22-2016 by Ord. No. 7-2016]
It shall be unlawful to construct or lay any pavement on any public street, sidewalk, or other public way, or to repair the same, without first having secured a permit pursuant to Article 6 of this chapter. In the event of a conflict between this Article 1 and Article 6 of this chapter, the provisions of Article 6 shall prevail.
Each applicant shall file a bond in the amount of at least $10,000, with surety to be approved by the Council, conditioned to indemnify the municipality for any loss or damage resulting from the work undertaken or the manner of doing the same.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 30, General Provisions, Art. 2).
All street and sidewalk pavements shall be made in conformity with specifications laid down or approved from time to time by the Council.
It shall be unlawful to walk upon or drive any vehicle or animal upon, or injure any newly laid street or sidewalk pavement while the same is guarded by a warning sign or barricade, or to knowingly injure any soft, newly laid pavement.
All public streets and sidewalks shall be maintained in a reasonably safe condition. Such repair work, whether done by the City or by the abutting owner, shall be under the supervision of the Director of Public Works.
It shall be the duty of every City officer or employee becoming cognizant of any defect in any street or sidewalk, or any obstruction thereof, to report the same to the Director of Public Works as soon as possible.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to cause, create or maintain any obstruction of any street, sidewalk or other public way, except as may be specifically authorized by ordinance or by the Director of Public Works.
(A) 
Any person, firm or corporation laying or repairing any pavement on a street, sidewalk or other public place, or making an excavation in any such place, shall maintain suitable barricades to prevent injury to any person or vehicle by reason of the work; such barricades shall be protected by lights at nighttime.
(B) 
Any defects in any such pavement shall be barricaded to prevent any such injury, and any person, firm or corporation properly maintaining any opening or excavation in any such place shall guard such opening or excavation while the same remains open by proper barricades and lights.
It shall be unlawful to disturb or interfere with any barricade or lights lawfully placed to protect or mark any new pavement or excavation or opening in any public street or sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use any street, sidewalk or other public place as space for the display or sale of goods or merchandise; or to write or mark any signs or advertisements on any such pavements.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any building, structure or sign which encroaches upon any public right-of-way.
(B) 
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ENCROACHMENT
Any building, fence, sign, including banners, or any other structure or object of any kind (with the exception of utilities and public road signs), which is placed, located or maintained in, on, under or over any portion of the public right-of-way.
PERMISSIBLE ENCROACHMENT
Any existing awning, marquee, advertising sign or similar overhanging structure supported from a building immediately adjacent to the limits of the platted street where there is a sidewalk extending to the building line and which does not impair the free and safe flow of traffic on the highway; the permissive retention of overhanging signs is not to be construed as being applicable to those signs supported from poles constructed outside the project right-of-way line and not confined by adjacent buildings.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
Those areas existing or acquired by dedication or by fee simple for street, sidewalk, alley or parkway purposes or other similar property owned or maintained by the City.
It shall be unlawful to injure any sidewalk, street, pavement, trees, shrubbery, grass, or other public property in the public right-of-way.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful to deposit on any street any material which may be harmful to the pavement thereof, or any waste material, or any glass, or other articles which may bring injury to any person, animal or property.
(B) 
Lawful materials may be deposited in streets preparatory to delivery or use, provided such deposit does not reduce the usable width of roadway at that point to less than 18 feet and provided that such material shall not be permitted to remain on such streets for more than 24 hours.
(C) 
Any such material shall be guarded by lights if the same remains upon any street after nightfall.
It shall be unlawful to deposit on any public sidewalk any material other than merchandise or articles intended for immediate delivery into the adjacent premises.
It shall be unlawful to obstruct any drain in any public street. Further, it shall be unlawful to dispose of any organic or inorganic material which may obstruct an aforementioned drain by depositing said materials in or upon any sidewalk, street or gutters.
It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the State of Illinois, to use the storm sewers constructed by the State of Illinois and installed on 87th Street or elsewhere in the City. The discharge of stormwaters, sanitary sewage, industrial waste matter, or any other material therein, by any other person, is hereby prohibited.
It shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any poles or wires on or over any public street or other public way without having first secured permission from the Council.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful to make any excavation in or tunnel under any public street, sidewalk or other public place in the City without having first secured a permit therefor. Applications for such permits shall be made to the City Clerk and shall specify the intended location and purpose of the excavation.
(B) 
Any person making any such excavation shall refill the same properly and shall restore the surface to its condition before the excavation was made, as soon as possible. All such excavations, refills and resurfacing shall be made subject to the supervision and direction of the Director of Public Works.
It shall be unlawful to play any games upon any street, sidewalk or other public place where such games cause unnecessary noise, or interfere with traffic or pedestrians. This section shall not be construed so as to include areas designated as public playgrounds or recreational areas.
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Editor's Note: Former § 5.21, Barbed wire fences, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 30, General Provisions, Art. 2).