[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Walton as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-12-1905 (Ch. 43, Art. I, of the 1973 Code)]
A. 
No person or persons shall play ball or throw and catch ball, or throw any ball with the intent that it shall be caught by himself or another, in any of the public streets, sidewalks or alleys of the Village.
B. 
No person or persons shall coast in or upon any of the streets of the Village; nor shall any person ride upon any vehicle, sled, bobs or other means of conveyance which is propelled or obtains its momentum by descending a grade or incline in any of the streets of the Village.
C. 
The Board of Trustees may by resolution exempt any street or streets of the Village from the operation of this section or any of the provisions thereof for such period of time as it may deem proper.
D. 
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
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No person shall place or leave any obstruction in or upon or over any of the streets or highways of said Village within the outer line of said streets or highways; except that the Mayor of the Village may by written permit authorize the use of a part of the street by the adjacent landowner for the assembling of building material and its reasonable use in connection with the erection of a building upon said street, in which case the permit shall specify the space, manner and length of time of occupancy, and may, as a condition thereof, direct therein how and in what manner the public shall be protected against injury by such obstruction; except, also, the Mayor of the Village may by written permit authorize the moving of any building upon any of the streets or highways of the Village, in which case the permit shall specify the streets along which the building may be moved, and also provide what notice or warning shall be given to the public to avoid injuries thereby.
B. 
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both; and in addition thereto shall be subject to a penalty of $25 to be recovered in a civil action by the Village.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
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Editor's Note: On 5-5-1905 this section was amended as follows: "Resolved that the Village bylaws be and hereby are amended as follows, viz: Article II, Section 2, add the words 'excepting Liberty Street and Park Street'."
A. 
No person shall paint, paste or write any notice or advertisement upon any bridge, sidewalk, fence or erection upon or along any of the streets of the Village; nor in any manner mar or deface any such fence, sidewalk, bridge or erection; nor shall any placard, bill, advertisement, notice or playbill, nor any written or printed paper, be attached, pasted or affixed upon any tree, telegraph, telephone or electric light pole, or upon any post, fence, sidewalk, building, showboard or other erection within the streets or public places of the Village, except upon such boards as shall be provided for that purpose by the Board of Trustees of the Village or designated by the written permit of the Mayor of the Village.
B. 
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
No additional telegraph, electric light or telephone poles shall be erected in the streets of the Village; nor shall any additional telegraph or telephone wires be erected or stretched across, upon, over or along any street of the Village, except by virtue of the provisions of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village duly made and entered.
A. 
No person or corporation shall cause any steam from any boiler or engine exhaust to be blown or allowed to escape into, upon or over any of the streets or public highways of the Village.
B. 
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.[1]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
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Editor's Note: Original § 43-7, Locomotives blocking crossings, of the 1973 Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 2-2-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009.
[Amended 1-9-1984 by L.L. No. 1-1984; 4-18-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994; 6-1-2009 by L.L. No. 4-2009]
A. 
Removal from sidewalks; duty of owner or occupant. It shall be the duty of the owner and occupant of each and every parcel of real estate in the Village abutting or bordering upon any street, avenue, highway or other public place to remove or cause to be removed all snow and ice from the sidewalk in front of or adjacent to such premises to the full paved width of such sidewalk before 9:00 a.m. of each day; provided, however, that where footways or sidewalks have not been paved or duly established, snow and ice shall be removed to a width of not less than four feet from that portion of the street or way which is used in common as a footway in such street or way.
B. 
Use of ashes, sand, similar material. In case the snow and ice on the sidewalk shall be frozen so hard that it cannot be removed without injury to the pavement, the owner and occupant of every parcel of said real estate shall, within the time specified in Subsection A of this section, cause the sidewalk abutting or adjacent to such premises to be strewn and to be kept strewn with ashes, sand or some other suitable material and shall, as soon thereafter as the weather shall permit, thoroughly clean such sidewalk.
C. 
Authority of Code Enforcement Officer to cause removal; assessment of cost of removal by Village. Whenever any owner or occupant of such parcel of real estate shall fail or neglect to remove such snow and ice as aforesaid, the Code Enforcement Officer may have the snow and ice removed therefrom without notice to such owner or occupant, and the cost of such removal, together with an additional charge of 50% thereof for supervision and administration, shall be assessed against such property, and the same shall be levied, corrected, enforced and collected in the same manner, by the same proceedings, at the same time, under the same penalties, and having the same lien upon the property so assessed as the general Village tax and as a part thereof.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A. 
No person shall mark, deface, cut or injure any tree in or adjacent to any street, lane, highway or park of the Village.
B. 
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
[Adopted 9-24-1892 (Ch. 43, Art. III, of the 1973 Code)]
The Trustees of the Village are hereby authorized and directed to lay out and cause to be opened such new streets as they may deem necessary or proper for the present or probable future need of the Village, proceeding in the matter as provided by statute, all expense incurred in the purchase or condemnation of land for such street to be a charge upon the Village of Walton, to be raised by a tax thereon, as now provided by law.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
No public money or labor shall be expended by the Trustees or DPW Superintendent of the Village upon any so-called street, alley or lane, until the same shall have been duly laid out and recorded as a public highway or street of the Village.