[R.O. 2008 § 210.690; R.O. 2004 § 225.010; CC 1990 § 225.010; Ord. No. 25 §§ 1 — 2, 5-16-1957]
A. 
It is hereby determined by the Board of Aldermen that the streets, alleys and sidewalks of the City of Pevely have been well established by public use since the establishment of the incorporated Town of Pevely and that there are numerous occasions where said streets, alleys, sidewalks and other thoroughfares are being obstructed by people within the City so as to prevent the free use thereof by the citizens of Pevely and others desiring to use the same.
B. 
Any person who shall place or cause to be placed in or upon any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk, thoroughfare or other public place within this City any motor vehicle, article or thing whatsoever, so as to obstruct or hinder the free passage of persons or vehicles over or along such street, alley, avenue, thoroughfare, sidewalk or other public place or shall permit any article or thing to be placed upon any sidewalk, thoroughfare, street, alley, avenue or other public place within said City of Pevely shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation; provided that nothing in this Section shall be so construed to prevent any person placing any package of merchandise or furniture upon said sidewalk in order to obtain access to a building which he/she may have adjacent thereto, if the same does not occupy more than one-half (1/2) of the width thereof and remain thereon no more than two (2) hours. No persons shall leave open or permit to be kept open any cellar door or other opening on any sidewalk located in the City of Pevely and used by the public, nor adjacent thereto, so as to endanger persons or animals falling into such opening.
[R.O. 2008 § 210.700; R.O. 2004 § 225.040; CC 1990 § 225.040; Ord. No. 25 § 5, 5-16-1957]
No person shall take from or deposit on any street, alley, avenue, sidewalk or other public place of this City, or from or on any property not owned or controlled by him/her without having lawful authority so to do, any earth, sand, turf, loam, gravel, rock or other substance or material.
[R.O. 2008 § 210.710; R.O. 2004 § 225.050; CC 1990 § 225.050; Ord. No. 25 § 6, 5-16-1957]
No person shall remove, tear up or otherwise destroy or injure any bridge, culvert, sidewalk, pavement, crosswalk, road surface or material in or upon any street, avenue, alley or sidewalk of this City without having lawful authority so to do.
[R.O. 2008 § 210.720; R.O. 2004 § 225.070; CC 1990 § 225.070; Ord. No. 25 § 8, 5-16-1957]
No person shall cast, drop, throw, place or cause to be cast, dropped, thrown or placed upon any sidewalk or part of any street or avenue or other public place in said City any stone, coal, firewood, leaves, paper, dirt, chips, straw, cinders, ashes or rubbish, glass, iron, nails, tacks, wire or other metal or any other substance without immediately removing the same.
[R.O. 2008 § 210.730; R.O. 2004 § 225.100; Ord. No. 776 §§ 1 — 4, 6, 10-5-1993]
A. 
All property owners in the City of Pevely, Missouri, shall be obligated and required to maintain at their own expense any and all physical objects, including, but not limited to, trees, shrubs, grasses, walls, porticos, stoops, awnings, area ways, walls or other structures or things on the property owner's property that encroach upon the right-of-way of any City "street" as that term is defined in this Section so that the street right-of-way, including sidewalks, is kept in a reasonably safe condition for travel and as public thoroughfares in the usual modes by day and night.
B. 
For purposes of this Section, the term "street" is defined as: A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property. The term includes all facilities which normally are found within the right-of-way; it shall also include such other designations as highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, forge or other such terms but shall not include pedestrian way or alley.
C. 
Any object or thing within a street right-of-way that obstructs or interferes with the use of the streets or sidewalks shall be deemed a nuisance and the City shall have the right to remove it.
D. 
The requirement that property owners maintain such objects referred in Subsection (A) above that abut their property shall apply regardless of who planted or placed the object in the street right-of-way.