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 to permit any wastewater, including rainwater, to run
or flow from any building across any sidewalk of the Town.
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.
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 or by any other lawful means selected by the Burgess and
Commissioners.
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.