CROSS REFERENCES
Power to regulate street obstructions — See
3rd Class § 2403(16) et seq. (53 P.S. § 37403(16)
et seq.).
Rubbish hauling regulations — See BUS. REG.
Art. 315.
Street openings — See S.U. & P.S. Art. 901.
Property owners to maintain sidewalks — See
S.U. & P.S. 903.01.
[Ord. 3011 § 1, passed 10-14-1908; Ord. 5909 § 1, passed 10-22-1926]
All erections or obstructions whatsoever, unless authorized
by special resolution of the Mayor and Council, upon any part of any
street, public square or public wharf in the City, are declared to
be common nuisances. All persons are prohibited from causing, placing,
maintaining, allowing or keeping upon any part of any street, public
square or public wharf, or any public appendage or construction connected
therewith, any merchandise, vehicle, trees, posts, timber, firewood,
brick, stone, straw, hay, shavings, manure or any other article, thing
or obstruction whatsoever, unless authorized as aforesaid. This shall
not repeal existing ordinances relating to space on sidewalks permitted
to be occupied for areaways, and by merchants for the display of goods.
[Ord. 4965 § 1, 2, passed 10-29-1920]
No person shall transport earth over any paved street of the
City without first making a cash deposit with the Bureau of Streets
as hereinafter provided.
Before any person shall transport earth over any paved street
of the City, he shall deposit with the Director of the Department
of Public Works cash in an amount not exceeding $100, to be determined
by the Director, as a guarantee that the person will at the end of
each working day clean the street of earth which may fall from the
wagons or trucks of such person. In case such person should fail to
so clean such streets at the end of each working day, then the City
will do so and deduct the cost of such work from the money so deposited
as herein required, and return the balance remaining, if any, to the
person making the deposit.
[Ord. 12-2-1879 § 2;
Ord. 1890 § 1, passed 7-16-1901]
No person shall place or allow to be placed upon the sidewalks
in front of his premises any bales, boxes, barrels, hogsheads, crates,
lumber, coal, wood, ashes or any article or thing whatsoever that
may obstruct such walk. However, bicycle racks may be placed and maintained
in the outer edges of the sidewalks, provided such racks shall be
not less than 28 nor more than 38 inches in height, and shall not
exceed three feet in width, and no such racks shall contain any advertising
matter other than the names of the owners.
No person shall drive upon or occupy any part of a sidewalk
with any wagon, cart, dray, sleight, sled or other vehicle for the
purpose of loading or unloading goods, wares, merchandise or for other
purposes, or allow a horse or team to stand upon such walk. No person
shall place or allow to be placed in or upon any public alley in the
City any wagon, cart or obstruction of any kind that will prevent
the free use of such alley.
[Ord. of 12-2-1879 § 2]
The reasonable use of sidewalks shall be permitted for the purpose
of loading and unloading goods, wares and merchandise, etc., and in
transferring the same to and from stores, houses, shops, etc., the
prohibition aforesaid as to occupancy or obstruction of such walks
with wagons, carts, teams, etc., being duly observed.
[Ord. 3223 § 6, passed 10-21-2010]
No person shall, in the construction of concrete sidewalks,
block or fill up the street gutters with sidewalk material, dirt,
cinders, lumber or other articles, but shall keep the same at all
times clear and free from material or debris.
[Ord. of 7-12-1866 § 21]
No person shall allow any drainage or water from any sink, pump
or well on his premises to flow upon any street, or the public square
of the City. However, any citizen, on application to the Mayor and
Council, may have leave to construct and keep, if deemed necessary,
a well covered drain one or more feet beneath the surface of any such
street or public square, to be constructed under the direction of
the Mayor and Council, or some person by them appointed for that purpose.
[Ord. 8465 § 1, 2, passed 8-2-1949]
(a)
It shall be the duty of any person operating a vehicle in and upon
the streets and alleys of the City, in the process of delivering commodities
in glass containers or collecting empty glass containers, to immediately
clean up and remove from the streets, alleys or sidewalks of the City
any broken glass which may result from such delivering and collecting.
(b)
Every such vehicle while being so operated shall be equipped with
adequate facilities for cleaning up and removing such broken glass,
and any person owning or operating such vehicle shall be charged with
the duty of providing and maintaining such facilities in or upon such
vehicle at all times while it is being so operated.
[Ord. 48-1966 § 1, passed 9-28-1966]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article,
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $300 or imprisoned not
more than 90 days, or both.
