[CC 1985 § 26-16; Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
It shall be the duty of any owner, or the person in charge of any property along any street or alley within the City, to keep the same in such condition that it will not endanger the life, limbs or person of any passerby; and when any such owner or person in charge shall be notified by the Director of Municipal Services, Chief of Police or any Policeman to repair or to remove any tree, or limb thereof, building, roof, chimney, wall, shed, awning, cellar door, stairway or other structure of any kind so that the same will not be dangerous to any passerby, it shall be unlawful for any such person to fail to comply with said notice as soon as reasonable.
[CC 1985 § 26-17]
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain any awning or sign board or other obstruction on any sidewalk or street, in such manner as to obstruct or obscure the light of any street light.
[CC 1985 § 26-18]
A. 
Sidewalks. All rigid or permanent awnings overhanging any sidewalk in the City shall be so constructed that they shall clear the surface of the sidewalk by at least seven (7) feet; and all retractable awnings shall be so hung that they shall clear the surface of the sidewalk by at least six and one-half (6 1/2) feet.
B. 
Vehicular Way. No awning in the City shall be so constructed or hung that it shall clear the vehicular portion of any street or alley by a distance of less than fourteen (14) feet.
[CC 1985 § 26-19]
It shall be unlawful for any person to mischievously obstruct any street, sidewalk or alley within the City by placing boxes, barrels or any other matter on such streets, sidewalks or alleys, or to stretch ropes, wires or strings across the same.
[CC 1985 § 26-20]
It shall be unlawful for any person in making any improvements on any lot or tract of ground in the City to block or obstruct any street or alley near the same, or to place any material used, or to be used, in the improvements in, along or upon the street or alley without leaving reasonable room for use and passage by the public; or to make any excavation in or near any street or alley while making said improvements, and not fully guard the same against damage or injury to any person, while using the street or alley; or to fail, refuse or neglect to construct or provide railings or barriers along the lots or improvement, to protect the public from danger or injury, during the construction or repairing of any building; or to fail at night to keep upon such material, obstruction or excavation a bright light sufficient to reveal all the same.
[CC 1985 § 26-21]
It shall be the duty of every contractor or other person who shall place material of any character in any street or alley for the construction of any building, sidewalk, curbing or other work, to remove all such material and the refuse and debris therefrom within five (5) days after such work is completed and to clean up the street or alley and have same in as good condition as it was prior to the placing of such material in such street or alley.
[CC 1985 § 26-22]
A. 
Whenever there is snow on the sidewalk in the City, the occupants of property abutting such sidewalks shall clean the snow from the sidewalk fronting or abutting the property occupied by them, within six (6) hours after the snow ceases to fall; provided, that if such snow falls during the night, then it shall be removed from such sidewalk before 12:00 noon on the day immediately after the fall of the snow; and provided further, that if any such property abutting the sidewalk is unoccupied or vacant, then such sidewalk shall be cleaned by the owner of such property; and provided further, that if the owner of such property is a nonresident of the City, such sidewalk shall be cleaned by the resident agent of the owner of such property.
B. 
It is further provided herein that the Director of Municipal Services or his/her authorized representative shall be responsible for enforcement of this section and responsible for giving notice to any and all occupants who are in violation of this Section, and if the occupant or owner of the premises does not comply with the provisions of this section immediately upon receiving notice that he/she is in violation that the City acting through the Director of Municipal Services or his/her authorized representative, shall have the right and duty to remove the snow from the areas in question and shall bill the occupant, occupants or owner of the premises for such removal.
[Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
[CC 1985 § 26-23; Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
Whenever there is dirt or mud on a sidewalk of the City, the occupants of the property abutting such sidewalk shall clean the dirt and mud from the sidewalk fronting or abutting the property occupied by them, within twenty-four (24) hours after being notified to do so by the Director of Municipal Services, or by any Police Officer of the City; provided, that if any property abutting the sidewalk is unoccupied or vacant, then such sidewalk shall be cleaned by the owner of such property within the time above provided, after a service of notice, as aforesaid; provided, further, that if the owner of such unoccupied or vacant property is a nonresident of the City, then such sidewalk shall be cleaned by the resident agent of the owner of such property within the time provided after service of notice as aforesaid.
[CC 1985 § 26-24]
It shall be unlawful for any person to take from or deposit on any street, alley, thoroughfare, sidewalk or other public place of the City, or from or on property not controlled or owned by him/her, without having lawful authority so to do any turf, loam, gravel, rock, dirt or other material.
[CC 1985 § 26-25]
A. 
Permit Required. No person shall be permitted to move houses or any other buildings in the streets of the City without first having obtained a permit from the Mayor therefor.
B. 
Liability Of Contractor. The contractor performing the work of moving any house or building shall be liable for any and all damages done to any property whatsoever while performing the work; and shall also be liable for any and all damages which may result against the City on account of such moving.
C. 
Bond Of Contractor. The contractor shall give bond in an amount to be fixed by the City Engineer, to cover any damages done to property owners in the moving of any houses or buildings and to indemnify the City for any damages and losses sustained, which bond shall be approved by the City Council.
[CC 1985 § 26-26]
No gate shall be constructed or swung or maintained in such manner as to open across or over any sidewalk laid along any public street within the City.
[CC 1985 § 26-27]
A. 
Gutters. All buildings that may be constructed so that the roof extends to or over any street, alley or public highway, in the City shall have a roof gutter of a size sufficient to catch all the water that drains from the roof, and conduct it to downspouts of sufficient size to carry off the water without causing the roof gutter to overflow.
B. 
Downspouts. Such downspouts leading from the roof gutter shall extend to the ground and shall be so constructed that the water carried thereby shall not run across or upon any sidewalk, and so that such water shall not interfere in any manner with traffic upon such street, alley or other highway.
[CC 1985 § 26-28]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or leave open any cellar door or grating of any vault, on any street, highway or sidewalk, or to suffer any such grating or door belonging to the premises occupied by him/her to be in any insecure or unsafe condition, or to suffer any well, cistern or other excavation adjacent to any street or public place, on premises owned or occupied by him/her to remain uncovered or in an unsafe condition.
[CC 1985 § 26-29]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to display, place or set out any goods, implements, merchandise, stand or any other thing on any part of any street, alley or sidewalk around the "square" or within two (2) blocks of the square or to cause or suffer the same to be done without prior approval of the City Council.
B. 
The owners or operators of any of the property hereinabove designated may with the prior approval of the City Council, after obtaining a building permit and under the direction of the City Engineer, improve and beautify their property by placing thereon things of an ornamental nature, including planters, plants and ornamental structures on sidewalks in front of their business, providing such structures are so placed that they will not interfere with pedestrian traffic in the vicinity thereof. Owners shall be responsible for keeping such structures in good repair and shall carry liability insurance in regard to such structures.
C. 
This Section shall not apply to the erection and placing on the sidewalk of a storm door during the winter months, provided the storm door shall not extend out from the building more than three and one-half (3 1/2) feet.
[CC 1985 § 26-30]
A. 
Use Of Alleys During Certain Hours. No vehicle shall remain upon any public street for the purpose of receiving and discharging freight between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. whenever there is a public alley which has connection with the premises where the freight is to be delivered or received and such delivery or receipt is practicable through the alley.
B. 
Backing To Curb. A vehicle shall remain backed to the curb only long enough to be loaded or unloaded.
C. 
Loading, Unloading In Congested District. When taking or discharging freight, vehicles in the congested district, being the area within one block of the public square, so far as the same is practicable, shall be loaded or unloaded from the right side and not from the end of the vehicle, and the vehicle shall be drawn in close to the curb.
D. 
Manner Of Parking; Time Limit. Wagons or trucks for the delivery of merchandise will be required to pull in close to the curb and parallel with it for the purpose of loading and unloading and shall remain for no longer period than is absolutely necessary, and in no case shall any vehicle of whatever class be permitted to stop abreast of another, except in case of an emergency which cannot be avoided.
E. 
Standing Near Theater, Hotel, Church. No vehicle shall be left standing longer than necessary to load or unload in front of or within ten (10) feet of either side of the entrance to any theater, hotel or church.
[CC 1985 § 26-31]
No vehicle shall be permitted to stand upon any boulevard, parkway, avenue, street or public place to the obstruction of the same or to the inconvenience of travel.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 26-32 of CC 1985, pertaining to washing of vehicles, which immediately followed this Section, was repealed 7-7-1986 by Ord. No. 6176.
[CC 1985 § 26-33]
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant any trees or shrubs upon the right-of-way of any street within the limits of the City.
[CC 1985 § 26-34; Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
It shall be the duty of the Director of Municipal Services to cut, remove and trim the trees growing upon the streets and alleys of the City, where it shall be necessary for the purpose of using the streets and alleys for the purpose of running wires for any purpose, or for the purpose of improving the condition of the streets, alleys or trees. All such trimming and cutting shall be done in such manner as to do as little injury as possible to any tree so cut or trimmed.
[CC 1985 § 26-35; Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
It shall be the duty of any owner or occupant of any premises upon which trees may be growing the branches and limbs of which shall extend into and over the streets of the City to trim and cut off the branches of such trees so extending into any such street or alley, upon being notified so to do by the Director of Municipal Services; and it shall be unlawful for any person so notified to fail or refuse to comply with the request, so made, within three (3) days after being notified.
[CC 1985 § 26-36]
Every person owning a hedge fence over five (5) years old, upon the line of any public street or alley in the City, is hereby required to cut the same down to the height of not more than five (5) feet nor less than four (4) feet, once every two (2) years; provided that hedge fences enclosing orchards, house yards and stockyards shall be exempted from the provisions of this Section.
[CC 1985 § 26-37; Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
A. 
Notice; Contents, Service. It shall be the duty of the Director of Municipal Services when upon the line of any public street or alley is situated a hedge fence exceeding the height prescribed in Section 510.290 once in every two (2) years to notify the owner of such fence to cut the same down to the height therein provided; said notice shall be in writing, and shall be served by the Director of Municipal Services delivering the same to the owner or owners or agents of any such fence, or by leaving said notice at the usual place of abode of such owner or his/her agent, or by posting the same upon the line of such street or alley, when the owner or his/her agent cannot be found.
B. 
Effect Of Noncompliance By Owner. If, after thirty (30) days from the date of the service of the notice hereinbefore described, the owner or his/her agent shall fail or refuse to cut the same down to the height herein required, then it shall be the duty of the Director of Municipal Services forthwith to proceed to have the same cut down according to the provisions of this Section; and all costs and expenses which he/she shall necessarily incur shall be reported by the Director of Municipal Services to the City Council and after said report has been adopted by the Council the amount specified in said report shall be charged against the owner of the land upon which such fence is situated, shall constitute a tax upon such land, and shall be collected as other revenues of said City are now collected by law.
[CC 1985 § 26-38; Ord. No. 5833 §§ 2 — 9, 10-4-1982]
A. 
It is deemed necessary, in the interest of the public health, welfare and safety of the citizens of the City, and for the free flow of traffic within the City, that the intersection sight distances be regulated within the City.
B. 
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any tree, shrub, bush, vine, hedge or plant, or any other vegetation of any kind, to be grown, maintained or cultivated in such a manner so that any portion of such tree, shrub, bush, vine, hedge, plant or vegetation obstructs the sight distance triangle hereinafter described; provided, however, that all established shade trees now growing at any street intersection may be trimmed in such a manner that no overhanging or low branches shall obstruct the sight distance triangle.
C. 
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any board fence, billboard, advertising sign, solid utility appurtenance greater than eighteen (18) inches in diameter, and similar appurtenances to be placed, maintained in such manner so that any portion of the objects obstructs the sight distance triangle; provided, however, that this does not include buildings and parts thereof existing on October 4, 1982.
D. 
It shall hereafter be unlawful to park any motor vehicle within the sight distance triangle, except permitted on-street parking, and the motor vehicles parked in the sight distance triangle are hereby declared to be nuisances.
E. 
The "sight distance triangle," for the purposes of this Section, shall mean an area of each quadrant of a street intersection in which vision of motor vehicle drivers shall not be materially impeded between the heights of two and one-half (2 1/2) feet and eight (8) feet above the grade of the adjacent street gutter or edge of pavement, measured from the point of intersection of the center lines of the streets, sixty-five (65) feet in each direction along the center line of the streets. At the intersection of arterial streets, shown on the major street plan of the City, the sixty-five-foot distance shall be increased to ninety-five (95) feet. The term "street" for the purposes of this section means the existing pavement or travelway surfaces and is irrespective of property lines.
F. 
It shall be the duty of the owner of any lot or parcel of ground in the City to maintain the sight distance triangle clear of vegetation, trees and other visibility obstructions to the curbline or travelway of adjacent streets.
G. 
The Director of Municipal Services, or his/her duly authorized representative, shall inspect street intersections which come to his/her attention as having a sight distance blockage and shall make an examination thereof. If the Director of Municipal Services finds that the intersection has a sight distance blockage, he/she shall issue a notice in writing, sent by certified mail to the owners of the real estate where such obstruction is located and the owners shall have twenty (20) days within which to remove the sight distance blockage from the date of the notice. If the owners do not remove the sight distance obstructions in the aforementioned time, the City shall remove or cause to be removed the objects, trees, bushes or vegetation causing the sight distance blockage, and the City Clerk shall issue a special tax bill against the respective owners for the cost of the sight distance removals, including those on adjacent street right-of-way.
[Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]
H. 
It shall be lawful for the Director of Municipal Services or contractor working under his/her direction to enter the premises of any landowner or tenant adjacent to any of the street intersections as necessary to remove or prevent the sight distance obstruction.
[Ord. No. 5947 § 9, 2-21-1984]