(A)
It
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation who is not registered
by the City as a landscape architect or landscape irrigator to secure
permits as provided herein.
(B)
Each
applicant for registration as a landscape architect or landscape irrigator
shall have an established place of business or shop for which a certificate
of occupancy has been secured if within the City limits. Such certificate
of occupancy shall be displayed in his place of business.
(A)
To
register with the City as a landscape architect or landscape irrigator,
application shall be made in writing on forms furnished for that purpose
and filed with the Building Official. The application shall show the
architect’s or irrigator’s name, local address and telephone
number, and such other information as may be required to properly
identify the architect or irrigator.
(B)
It
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to represent
himself or themselves as a registered and licensed landscape architect
or landscape irrigator, or to falsely use the words “landscape
architect,” “landscape irrigator,” or words of similar
import or meaning as defined by the state board of landscape architects,
on signs, cards, stationery, or by any other misleading manner whatsoever
within the City, unless said person, firm or corporation is, in fact,
registered and holds a valid certificate issued by the state board
of landscape architects.
(Ordinance 5371, sec. 5, adopted 6/1/99)
(A)
The
actual work of installing, maintaining, altering or repairing of landscape
irrigation systems for which a permit is required by this Code shall
have supervision by a landscape architect or landscape irrigator as
provided by the state board of landscape architects and this Code.
Such registered landscape architect or irrigator shall be the supervisory
architect or irrigator of only one firm or corporation within the
City at any one time.
(B)
When
contracts to install landscape irrigation systems have been obtained
by persons who are not registered as plumbing contractors, landscape
architects, or landscape irrigators, the actual installation work
may be done only by a registered plumbing contractor, landscape architect,
or landscape irrigator to whom the contract may be assigned or sublet.
(A)
It
shall be unlawful for any person, except those exempt therefrom by
the state board of landscape architects and the Plumbing License Law
of 1947, who is not licensed as a landscape architect, landscape irrigator,
or plumber in accordance with provisions of the laws of the state
to install landscape irrigation systems as defined herein.
(B)
Nothing
herein shall be construed as prohibiting the employment of unskilled
laborers to handle, haul or to carry materials when working under
the immediate supervision of a landscape architect, landscape irrigator,
or master plumber.
(A)
Each
holder of a certificate as a landscape architect or landscape irrigator
shall display his license in a conspicuous place in his principal
place of business.
(B)
Each
holder of a license or certificate shall carry evidence of proper
registration on his person at all times while doing work and shall
produce and exhibit same when required by an inspector or officer
of the City.
An annual registration fee per section 30.301 of this chapter, as amended, shall be paid to the City prior to the acceptance of registration and after the person has been issued a certificate by the state board of landscape architects. The contractor registration provided for in this Code shall expire one (1) year following the date of issuance.
(Ordinance 5209, sec. 5, adopted 9/15/98; Ordinance 5371, sec. 5, adopted 6/1/99)
Permits shall apply to a specific installation to be done within
a specific single building, structure, or premises.
All permits, issued pursuant to this Code, shall be issued upon
the following conditions:
(1)
That
connections with, or openings into, the water mains of the City shall
be done by authorization of, and in the method prescribed by, the
City Water Department.
(2)
That
all installations meet the requirements of the Plumbing Code and such
other requirements as may be directed by the Building Official.
(3)
All
materials, up to and including the backflow preventer, shall meet
the requirements of the Plumbing Code.
(Ordinance 4847, sec. 6, adopted 3/7/95; Ordinance 5371, sec. 5, adopted 6/1/99; Ordinance 5628, sec. 16, adopted 2/19/02)
Violation of this article shall be a misdemeanor punishable in accordance with section 10.05 of this Code.
(A)
Garage
Sales office
Definitions:
shall mean a place for the storage of personal property and
the parking of motor vehicles.
shall mean an area within a new model home that provides
for the sale and display of other homes in the subdivision.
(B)
Sales
offices allowed.
Sales offices are hereby allowed to
be placed in the garages of homes located within any platted subdivision
as long as any new home remains unsold in said subdivision, subject
to the following conditions:
(1)
The overhead garage doors shall be installed in the garage so used
as a sales office.
(2)
An appropriate notice, stating that the area used as a sales office
is a garage and will be converted to same upon the sale of the home,
such notice posted in a conspicuous place at all times in the area
used as a sales office.
(3)
That the homes so used as sales offices shall be designated by the
developer and filed with the Building Official.
(4)
That sales contracts providing for the sale of homes within subdivisions
affected by this section shall contain appropriate language that a
garage shall be maintained on the premises at all times.
(Ordinance 5371, sec. 5, adopted 6/1/99)
(A)
Merchandising
is hereby prohibited on any street, alley, public square, or public
place in the City and every person, including any peddler or itinerant
merchant or his agents, officers, or employees, is prohibited from
merchandising on any street, alley, public square, or public place
in the City.
(B)
The
term “merchandising,” as used in this section, shall mean
the sale or offering for sale of any products, medicines, goods, wares,
or merchandise, except newspapers, ice, tickets or buttons for local
charitable or benevolent purposes, and vegetable, farm, poultry and
dairy products raised, owned and in possession of a bona fide farmer.
(C)
It
shall not be unlawful for any product, medicine, goods, wares, and
merchandise sold by any dealer or owner of the same, and not sold
in violation of this section, to be delivered over or via the streets,
alleys, public squares, or public places to the residence or place
of business of the purchaser.
(A)
It
shall be unlawful for any person, by loud talking or speaking or unusual
acts or exhibitions, to attract a crowd on any portion of any street
or sidewalk of the City to solicit trade or patronage for any business,
house or other premises. The use of any portion of any street or sidewalk
in the City for advertising or soliciting the sale of any goods, wares
or merchandise, is hereby prohibited.
(B)
It
shall not be unlawful for any product, medicine, goods, wares, and
merchandise sold by any dealer or owner of the same, and not sold
in violation of this section, to be delivered over or via the streets,
alleys, public squares, or public places to the residence or place
of business of the purchaser.
(C)
Defense
to prosecution: The possession of an active City license to operate
a sidewalk space on a City sidewalk at time and the location complained
of shall be a defense to prosecution under this section so long as
the activity complained of is within the scope of said license.
(Ordinance 4883, sec. 5, adopted 7/11/95; Ordinance
7447 adopted 7/11/2023)
(A)
It
shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any portion of any sidewalk
in the City by selling or offering for sale, at auction or otherwise,
any goods, wares, or merchandise on or about any sidewalk. It shall
likewise be unlawful for any person to place any barrel, box, wood
or any other substance on any sidewalk in the City so as to obstruct
the passage on or along such sidewalk or any part thereof. No person
shall have or maintain any stand or stall for any purpose on any portion
of any sidewalk in the City.
(B)
It
shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any sidewalk in front
of any church, theater or other public place, or place of business,
or in any other way obstruct the passage in or out of any church,
theater, or other public place.
(C)
Nothing
in this section shall be so construed as to prevent any merchant from
occupying not to exceed one-half (1/2) of the sidewalk immediately
in front of his place of business in receiving and forwarding goods,
wares and merchandise, provided such goods, wares and merchandise
shall not remain on such sidewalk for a longer time than one (1) hour.
(D)
Defense
to prosecution: The possession of an active City license to operate
a sidewalk space on a City sidewalk at time and the location complained
of shall be a defense to prosecution under this section so long as
the obstruction complained of is within the scope of said license.
(Ordinance 7447 adopted 7/11/2023)
Editor’s note–Former section 30.198 pertaining to the placing of advertising matter on sidewalks was repealed by Ordinance 6615, sec. 2, adopted May 21, 2013. Similar provisions can now be found in chapter 33, article XI of this Code.
(A)
For
the purposes of this section, “commercial property” shall
mean all property other than single-family residential property. “Commercial
building” shall mean any building or structure located on a
commercial property. The terms “commercial property” and
“commercial building” specifically include apartment and
multifamily properties and buildings. “Owner” shall include
an agent of the owner who is authorized to, or who actually does,
lease, manage, or collect rent from a commercial property on behalf
of the owner.
(B)
Maintenance
of parking areas.
The owner of a commercial property
shall:
(1)
Repair or resurface all parking areas, driveways to and from parking
areas, and the pads and driveways to and from refuse storage facilities
so as to be free from potholes, cracks which may contain weeds or
other vegetation, or changes in surface grade of one inch (1") or
greater.
(2)
Repaint or restripe parking spaces and fire lanes so as to maintain
clearly designated parking spaces and fire lanes.
(C)
Maintenance
of landscaping.
The owner of a commercial property shall
remove and replace all dead trees, shrubs, and groundcover which are
part of required landscaping for the commercial property and, if not
part of required landscaping, shall be removed or replaced.
(D)
Maintenance
of commercial buildings and structures.
The owner of
a commercial building shall:
(1)
Repair or replace broken, cracked, damaged, or missing doors and
windows.
(2)
Repair or replace loose, damaged, or missing exterior trim, siding,
and roofs.
(3)
Repaint or resurface exterior surfaces of the building with a weatherproof
protection.
(4)
Disconnect or cap off unsafe electric and unsanitary plumbing connections
in commercial buildings, or portions thereof, that have not been in
use for six (6) months or more.
(E)
Schedule
of maintenance.
The owner shall submit, within ten (10)
days of notification of a violation of this section, a work schedule
to the City and obtain all necessary permits for the work. All portions
of the work shall be completed within thirty (30) days of issuance
of a permit. However, major work such as reroofing a building or repaving
(resurfacing) a parking lot will be allowed thirty (30) days to submit
a work schedule and obtain a permit and a maximum of six (6) months
to complete the work.
(Ordinance 4449, sec. 1, adopted 9/18/90)
