(a)
Prohibited acts.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to deposit, unload or dump garbage,
trash, rags, wood, trees, limbs, twigs, paper or rubbish of any kind
and character on any portion of the public right-of-way, including
but not limited to bar ditches, sewage ditches, parks, playgrounds,
streets, alleys and all public property.
(b)
Penalty.
Any portion of this section that shall be violated
by any person, firm or corporation shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any portion of this section
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not in
excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). Each day that a violation
exists constitutes a separate offense.
(Ordinance 108 adopted 8/13/64; Ordinance 246 adopted 1/28/88)
(a)
Prohibited acts.
It shall be unlawful for any person
to damage, mutilate, destroy, remove or take down any sign or bulletin
board erected by the city, or to damage, mutilate, destroy, remove
or take down any ordinance or copy of an ordinance, or any notice
or sign, put up or posted by the city, within its corporate limits;
provided it shall not be unlawful for any officer or person designated
by the legislative body of the city to remove or take down any such
posted ordinance or notice after it has remained posted for the period
required by law, or any sign or notice upon direction of the mayor
of the city.
(b)
Penalty.
Any person violating any provision of this
section shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a
fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $500.00.
(Ordinance 72 adopted 8/11/58; Ordinance 246 adopted 1/28/88)
(a)
Building line.
Commercial type trailers.
Heavy machinery.
Definitions.
For the purpose of this section, the following
definitions will have meanings as follows:
The setback requirement established for the construction
of permanent structures. Where permanent structures exist at the time
of passage of this section, the building line is established at the
part of the principal structure or house closest to the street as
long as it is set back a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet from the
curb or edge of the street.
Movable equipment used to transport objects of various sizes
from one place to another set on axles and wheels whether open or
flat or flat with sideboards. This type trailer must comply with the
state department of public safety for registration and licensing requirements.
Motor-driven equipment used for the purpose of construction
work that is not legal for use on public streets or is defined as
slow-moving equipment. This does not include landscaping equipment
used by and for residential landscaping work as long as it is stored
safely on the property.
(b)
Prohibition.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
corporation, partnership, association of persons, owner, agent, occupant,
or anyone having supervision or control of any residential lot, tract,
parcel of land, or a portion thereof, occupied on unoccupied, within
the city limits to suffer or permit to remain on said property, within
view of any public street or alley, heavy machinery, or parts thereof,
including commercial truck trailers that are wrecked, dismantled,
partially dismantled, discarded, or are in a state of disrepair. Items
shall be considered to be in view even though covered with a tarp
or other temporary means. Items shall not be considered to be in view
when they are located behind a screening fence which has no through
visibility and which completely blocks all view of the equipment,
or parts thereof, from any public street or alley. Said fence must
be in compliance with the city’s fence ordinance.
(c)
Declaration of nuisance.
The requirements, as set forth
in this section, when violated, become a public nuisance since [violations
of] these requirements are detrimental to the safety and welfare of
the general public since it tends to reduce the value of private property,
invite vandalism, and create fire hazards, and constitutes an attractive
nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and
is detrimental to the economic welfare of city residents by producing
urban blight adverse to the maintenance and continuing development
of the city and so, therefore, is declared to be a public nuisance.
(d)
Penalty.
Any person who violates any provision of this
section shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not to exceed
two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense. Each day that such
a violation is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ordinance 353 adopted 4/22/99)
(a)
Loitering generally.
It shall be unlawful for any person
to be found loitering, concealed or sleeping at night, or other inappropriate
time, in or about any public building or private premises not such
person’s own, under suspicious circumstances, and not being
able to give a satisfactory account thereof.
(b)
Grocery store.
Legally parked motor vehicle.
Owner or operator.
Premises.
Definitions.
As used in subsection (c) of this section, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them:
Convenience food stores, supermarkets, and businesses whose
primary business is the sale of foodstuffs and beverages for off-premises
consumption.
Any motorized vehicle that is stopped or parked in a designated
parking area on business premises and the operator or the occupants
are patronizing the business.
The person who owns or manages a business premises; this
does not include an employee with no managerial capacity, but an employee’s
action may be sanctioned by an employer.
That area including structure, canopies, driveways, loading
area, accessory building, and undeveloped land in the same lot and
block of an individual business parking lot and, in the case of communal
parking, in a shopping center all parking area that is immediately
available to any person using or patronizing a business (the parking
area of a communal parking lot, public or private, shall be determined
by the use afforded to the public by the owners in the normal course
of their business operations, as in the case of two (2) separately
owned public parking lots where the owners normally share and encourage
their patrons to share each other’s parking facilities, and
those areas which would be commonly defined and understood as shopping
center parking lots).
(c)
Prohibited acts at business premises.
(1)
The following acts or conduct of any person entering or upon any
restaurant, drive-in restaurant, pool hall, amusement center, bowling
alley, movie theater, grocery store, or any other business providing
goods or services to the public are hereby declared to be unlawful:
(A)
To enter the premises of any restaurant, drive-in restaurant, pool
hall, amusement center, bowling alley, movie theater, grocery store,
or any other business providing goods or services to the public in
a motor vehicle of any description and park such motor vehicle and
leave the motor vehicle on said premises without getting the consent
of the owner or operator of such premises.
(i)
Any motor vehicle parked upon restaurant or drive-in restaurant
premises which is unattended and unoccupied for a period of two (2)
hours or more shall be presumed to have been parked without permission
of the owner or operator of the restaurant or drive-in restaurant.
(ii)
Any motor vehicle parked upon a pool hall, amusement center,
bowling alley, movie theater, grocery store or any other business
providing goods and/or services to the public which is unattended
and unoccupied after the business has closed to the public shall be
presumed to have been parked without permission of the owner or operator
of such business.
(iii)
In the event that the premises, as defined herein, are used
by businesses listed in both subsections (i) and (ii) above, then
subsection (ii) would be controlling.
(iv)
Leaving a motor vehicle unattended and unoccupied for the time
period in subsection (i) above and after business hours in subsection
(ii) above is prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle was parked
without the owner’s or operator’s consent or permission.
(B)
To enter such premises in a motor vehicle of any kind and use such
premises for cruising, racing, as a short-cut to another street, accelerating
or racing the motor of a vehicle from a sudden start to stop as to
cause a loud notice [noise] in a manner calculated to disturb the
persons present, bringing a motor vehicle to a sudden stop or start,
or blowing the horn when no necessity for the protection of the driver
or personal property exists and in a manner calculated to disturb
the persons present, to annoy or endanger any person or other vehicle
lawfully on such premises.
(C)
For three (3) or more persons to congregate on the premises and linger
or loiter at any location on the premises of any restaurant, drive-in
restaurant, pool hall, amusement center, bowling alley, movie theater,
grocery store or any other business providing goods or services to
the public other than in the facility or in a legally parked motor
vehicle.
(D)
To enter upon the premises of any restaurant, drive-in restaurant,
pool hall, amusement center, bowling alley, movie theater, grocery
store or any other business providing goods and/or services to the
public and consume any alcoholic beverage on said premises or possess
alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption on said premises. An
alcoholic beverage means alcohol and any beverage containing more
than one-half (1/2) of one percent of alcohol by volume which is capable
of use for beverage purposes either alone or when diluted.
(i)
Possession of any alcoholic beverage in an open container is
prima facie evidence of the intent to consume it immediately.
(ii)
It shall be the duty of the premises owner or operator to post
on the premises in a conspicuous location one or more signs bearing
the following legend: “No alcoholic beverages on premises. City
of Sansom Park Ordinance.”
(iii)
Provided that this section does not apply to licensed alcoholic
beverage dealers under the T.A.B.C.
(2)
It shall be the duty of the premises owner or operator to post on
the premises in a conspicuous location one or more signs bearing the
following legend: “Cruising or congregating or loitering is
unlawful. No unoccupied vehicles may be left on these premises without
the consent of the owner or operator or Police Department of the City
of Sansom Park.”
(d)
Penalty.
Any adult violating any provision of this section
shall be fined not more than $500.00.
(Ordinance 258, secs. III–VI,
adopted 4/13/89)
