It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit in or on any public road, street or alley, or any public highway, glass, cans or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, automobile or any vehicle upon such public road, street or alley, or any such public highway.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit in or on any public road, street or alley, any public highway, or in or on any public property of any nature in the city, any glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, hooks, wire, cans, box, bale, bundle, sack, paper, pasteboard box, cloth or any other kind of rubbish or trash.
(Ordinance 1220, §§ 31-54, 31-55)
A violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).
Each day any violation of any provision of this chapter continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ordinance 5853, § 35, adopted 9/6/1990)
No person shall display or erect a sign or banner for the purpose of advertising alongside or across any street when any portion of the sign or banner shall extend above the roadway of the street. The foregoing provision shall not apply to official traffic control devices.
(Ordinance 203, § 165)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or run upon any public street in the city any vehicle which has on its periphery any block, lub, stud, cleat, ridge, bead or any other protuberance of metal that shall project more than one-fourth (¼) of an inch beyond the tread or traction surface of the tire, unless the wheels are protected by bands, wooden blocks, skids or some sufficient device to protect the street against injury by reason thereof.
Nothing herein shall prevent the use of tractors with cleats on the driving wheels thereof on dirt or unimproved streets, or the use of vehicles actually engaged at the time in construction or repair of streets.
(Ordinance 515, § 1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer or semitrailer on the public streets in the city in such a manner as to leak, drop, spill, throw or deposit sand, gravel, water or any other fluid, dirt, rocks, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans or any other substance upon the streets of the city or to empty any contents of such commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer or semitrailer on the public streets of the city or in the ditches and drainage structures adjacent to the public streets of the city.
(Ordinance 515, § 2)
(a) 
The 1984 City of Irving Master Street Plan is hereby approved and adopted by the city council of the City of Irving, Texas, and a copy of said plan shall be on file in the office of the city secretary and is incorporated into this section as if it were actually printed verbatim in this section.
(b) 
The 1984 master street plan is a comprehensive plan designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, to promote the health and general welfare of the general public, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, and it is the declared intent and purpose of the city council of the City of Irving in enacting this section that this City of Irving Master Street Plan shall be used and adhered to in the improvement, development, extension and opening of new streets; provided, however, that the final alignment will be established at the time the improvement or opening of a particular street is undertaken or when an area of the City of Irving through which the street will traverse, is being platted. In this connection, conditions and situations may arise that will require modifications and changes that will better serve the public interest, and when such an occasion arises, this plan may be changed or amended to effect minor modifications or changes by resolution duly adopted by the city council; however, any major modification, alteration or change shall be accomplished as provided by law and evidenced by the enactment of an ordinance by the city council.
(Ordinance 2275, §§ 1—3, adopted 3/23/1972; Ordinance 3174, §§ 2, 3, adopted 10/19/1978; Ordinance 4544, §§ 1, 2, adopted 10/25/1984)
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Editor's note—Former § 34-2.4, which pertained to closing of streets for neighborhood block parties, application, and fees and derived from Ordinance 2358, 8/24/1972, and Ordinance 6634, 6/22/1995, was repealed 8/1/2024 by Ordinance 2024-10973.
(a) 
Considerations.
Changes in street names shall be considered based on the criteria outlined in the most recently adopted public facility dedication, honorary plaque installation, and street renaming policy.
(b) 
Cost of lighted or special sign replacement.
Applicants for a requested street name change will be responsible for all costs associated with the name change for lighted or special signs after approval, unless waived by city council upon determination of a public purpose. An estimate of the costs shall be provided to the applicant by the traffic and transportation department and will be included in the report to the city council for the request.
(c) 
Application.
All requests for street name changes shall be initiated by the applicant filing a request with the planning department. The completed application:
(1) 
Shall identify the street or street segment, stating the reason for the requested street name change and the requested name;
(2) 
Shall be filed by a person who is a property owner residing in the City of Irving;
(3) 
Shall be accompanied by a petition signed by no less than 80% of the owners of adjacent properties addressed to or abutting the affected street or segment and a letter explaining the reason and justification for the requested street name change. Each petition shall include at the top of the page:
THIS IS A PETITION REQUESTING THE CHANGE OF THE STREET NAME. CHANGING THE STREET NAME IS LIKELY TO REQUIRE ANY OWNERS OR OCCUPANTS RESIDING AT THE PROPERTY TO UPDATE MAILING ADDRESSES IN ANY RELEVANT PERSONAL DOCUMENTS AND WITH ANY PRIVATE OR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES; and
(4) 
Shall be accompanied by a filing fee as set forth in the latest consolidated fee schedule adopted by the city council, and an acknowledgement that the applicant will be responsible for the cost of any necessary sign replacements as set forth in the consolidated fee schedule, and additional costs pursuant to section 34-2.5(b) of the Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances of the City of Irving, should the change be approved.
(d) 
Processing.
(1) 
Hearing.
Upon receipt of a completed application that meets all the criteria set forth in section 34-2.5(c), the city council shall hold at least one public hearing to consider the purpose, criteria, and effects of changing the street name.
(2) 
Notification.
Notification of the public hearings including the time, date and location of the public hearings before the city council shall be sent by U.S. mail, postage paid, to the owners of real property abutting the subject street according to the most recently approved tax roll of the Dallas Central Appraisal District. In addition, said notice of the public hearings shall be advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Irving at least fifteen (15) days prior to the hearing before the city council.
(Ordinance 2631, § 1, adopted 3/14/1974; Ordinance 5187, § 15, adopted 4/2/1987; Ordinance 2023-10834, § 1, adopted 11/9/2023)