[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
No person shall willfully injure any shade tree or other ornamental
tree in or upon any street, alley or public grounds or land adjacent
to any sidewalk, except for damaged, dangerous or nuisance trees,
or willfully injure any bridge, sidewalk, post, or railing upon or
beside any street.
No person shall dig or cause to be dug into, through, or across
any street, alley, sidewalk, or public grounds any trench, ditch,
or other opening for any purpose without the written consent of the
Board of Trustees and the Superintendent of Public Works. All such
ditches or trenches or other openings or machinery used in digging
same shall at all times be carefully and properly guarded and lighted
at night by a red light.
No person shall post or hang any handbill, notice, placard or
advertisement, except legal notices, upon any post, telegraph, telephone
or electric light pole, tree, hydrant, fence, bridge or other object
or structure in the streets, alley or public grounds, except upon
billboards authorized and located by the Board of Trustees.
No person shall cut down any tree upon any public grounds without
first obtaining the written consent of the Village Trustees.
No person shall place or deposit any ashes or other rubbish
in or upon any street, lane, alley or public grounds except for the
purpose of removal, and in that case the same must be removed within
24 hours after it is so placed.
No person shall sweep, cast, throw or permit any person in his
employ to sweep, cast or throw into any of the streets, alleys, lanes,
gutters, drains, sewers or public places or upon any of the sidewalks
of this Village, or to litter with advertising handbills or permit
to drop from any wagon or vehicle used for hauling the same upon the
streets of the Village of Oakfield, any straw, shavings, wood, stone,
papers, rubbish, dirt, ashes, garbage, or any other substance or refuse
whatever, or cause any obstruction, nuisance, or injury in or to any
street, alley, lane, gutter, sewer, drain, or public place.
It shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of all lands and
real estate to cause the grass and weeds in the public streets, land
and alleys adjoining their respective premises to be cut down during
the first week in June, July, August and September, in each year,
and such owners or occupants shall also, when required by the Street
Commissioner, cause the gutters adjoining their respective premises
to be cleaned and the loose dirt, stones and rubbish to be put in
piles so that the same may be removed.
No person shall move any building over, across or upon any public
streets, lanes or alleys, unless permission shall be granted by the
Board of Trustees.
It shall be unlawful for any person to burn leaves or rubbish
on the public highway in the Village of Oakfield, New York.