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Editor's Note: Former § 69-2, Deposit of items on streets or sidewalks, as amended 3-9-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-01, was repealed 8-10-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-03.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or tenant of any building or lot in the Town to permit any wastewater, slop or liquid substance of any kind, except rainwater and water from noncommercial car washing or water from hose, to run or flow from any building or lot into the streets, gutters or sidewalks of the Town. It shall be unlawful in business and industrially zoned districts[1] to permit any wastewater, including rainwater, to run or flow from any building across any sidewalk of the Town.
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Editor's Note: For designation of zoning districts, see Ch. 88, Zoning, § 88-3, and the Zoning Map adopted thereby.
No person shall place or allow to remain in or upon or over any sidewalk or street within the Town any box, crate, barrel, carton, bricks, logs, lumber, lime, cement or other building material, or anything else, which might obstruct the free passage along and upon the sidewalk or street or which may make the street or sidewalk unsightly or dangerous to the public health or safety without first obtaining from the Burgess and Commissioners a permit to place and maintain the obstruction.
No person shall burn any paper or other refuse matter or place coal ashes or any waste materials on any sidewalk or street bed of the Town.[1]
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Editor's Note: For restriction of open burning generally, see Ch. 5, Air Pollution, § 5-2.
No person shall move, remove, tear down, destroy or carry away any barricade or obstruction that has been placed upon or across any street or sidewalk under or at the direction of the Burgess and Commissioners for the purpose of preventing or regulating traffic on such street or sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful for any person to molest, destroy, damage, mutilate or carry away any stake, post, stone or pin placed in any street or sidewalk for the purpose of indicating the grade thereof, or any lantern, street designation, road marker or any part of any public lamp.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or cause any sign or board to project over any sidewalk or any flag, banner or any other manner of display to be stretched across any of the streets of the Town without first securing a permit therefor from the Burgess and Commissioners.
It shall be unlawful for any person, without the permission in writing of the Burgess and Commissioners, to pave or cover with any material any parking space or the space between the sidewalk and curb, or any part thereof, or place upon any sidewalk in any manner whatever any letters or advertising device.
As an aid to freer and safe movement of vehicles at and near street intersections and in order to promote more adequate protection for the safety of children, pedestrians and operators of vehicles and for property, for proposed construction hereafter:
A. 
There shall be limitations on the height of fences, walls, gateways, ornamental structures, hedges, shrubbery and other fixtures, construction and plantings in all districts where front yards are required on corner lots;
B. 
Such barriers to clear, unobstructed vision at corners of intersecting streets shall be limited to a height of not over three feet above the established elevation of the nearest curb for a distance of at least 20 feet along both the front and side curblines measured from the point of intersection of the said intersecting curblines.
C. 
Within the isosceles triangle formed as required in Subsection B hereof by connecting the ends of the respective twenty-foot distances, all the fixtures, construction, hedges, shrubbery and other plantings shall be limited to a height of not over three feet above the elevation of the curb level at the said intersecting streets.
D. 
Within the said triangle, the ground elevation of such front yards shall not exceed three feet above the established curb elevation at said intersecting streets.
E. 
Any barriers to clear unobstructed vision within the said triangle validly existing before the effective date of this article may be removed by use of the condemnation power provided in the Town Charter[2] or by any other lawful means selected by the Burgess and Commissioners.
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Editor's Note: See Charter, § C8-2.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 88, Zoning, § 88-12.
A. 
All owners of property abutting upon a street, alley or other public way of the Town which is about to be constructed, paved or repaved, made, changed or repaired, to which property water, gas and sewer and any and all necessary underground conduits, pipes and connections have not been made, shall lay or place such water, gas, sewer and any and all necessary conduits, pipes and connections within 30 days after having received written notice from the Burgess and Commissioners to do so.
B. 
All utilities or other installations not owned by the Town of Walkersville which are located in streets, alleys or other public ways are the sole responsibility of the owner to adjust, alter or repair as required by the Burgess and Commissioners for routine street maintenance or improvements to such streets, alleys or other public ways. Such adjustments, alterations or repairs shall be completed within 30 days of receipt of notice unless an extension is granted by the Burgess and Commissioners.
C. 
Upon failure to comply with the written notice within 30 days from the receipt thereof, the Burgess and Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to perform such work and charge the cost of the same to the property owners. Such costs shall draw interest after 30 days at the rate of 1/2 of 1% per month, or fraction thereof, and shall be collectible in the same manner as are other Town taxes.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ride a bicycle or skate upon any sidewalk in any business or industrial district in the Town.
B. 
The provisions of Subsection A shall not apply to any police or law enforcement officer acting in the scope of his/her duties as a police or law enforcement officer.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ride any horse or pony upon any sidewalk in the Town.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or tenant of any building to erect or allow to remain on the building, over any sidewalk, any awning or covering of any description, whether movable or immovable, the bottom or lowest part of which is less than seven feet above the sidewalk.
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Editor's Note: This section was repealed 10-26-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-05.