[Adopted 1-13-1963[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: The provisions of this article
are derived from Article 3, Secs. 3-13 through 3-20, 3-22 and 3-28
of the former codification adopted 1-13-1963.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to take and carry away or willfully break, injure or destroy any box
or other receptacle maintained upon any street or alley in the Town
for the reception of paper, filth or waste matter; however, these
receptacles shall not be used for the reception of waste material
from commercial establishments or residential homes.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to, at any time or in any manner, deface or injure or remove any tree,
fence, gate, railing, porch, building or other structure upon public
land, by writing, cutting or in any other manner within the corporate
limits of the Town.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to purposely injure or deface, by cutting, breaking or otherwise,
any tree or trees now planted or hereafter to be planted along the
sidewalks or within the public rights-of-way within the corporate
limits of the Town.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to ride, drive, wheel, push or in any manner propel or permit to remain
on the sidewalks of the Town of Mount Airy, any wheelbarrow, handcart,
bicycle or any other such article, or any sled or sleigh in such a
manner so as to impede pedestrian traffic, excepting however, baby
carriages and grocery store carts.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupier
of any premises in Mount Airy to leave the opening to any cellar thereon
located so exposed that persons passing upon the street or sidewalks
may fall into such opening.
It shall be unlawful for any person to suffer
or permit water to fall or flow from the gutters or spouts on any
premises by him owned or occupied upon or over any sidewalk upon such
premises within the corporate limits of Mount Airy so as to injure
such sidewalks or inconvenience pedestrians.
It shall be unlawful for any storekeeper or
other person to encumber, obstruct or in any manner interfere with
the free and uninterrupted use of the public streets and sidewalks
of the Town of Mount Airy leaving any goods, wares, merchandise or
other articles or thing thereon, or by use of a commercial lift, except
for loading or during the erection or repair of a building.
It shall be unlawful for any person residing
within the corporate limits of Mount Airy, Maryland, to allow paper,
paper boxes and any inflammable material to be thrown or packed so
that wind may scatter it. All such matter must be in boxes or crates,
if kept outside of a building. All said paper and paper boxes, if
disposed of by burning, must be enclosed in some iron or steel receptacle
so that, in burning said matter, no danger of a fire shall originate
therefrom.
A.
No person engaged in excavating, repairs to structures
or grounds or construction or having charge or control of excavation,
repairs to structures or grounds or construction, or who may be engaged
in or have charge or control of conveying material to or from excavations,
repairs to structures or grounds or construction, shall deposit or
permit to be deposited, in any manner, upon the surface of any street,
alley, avenue, highway, footway, sidewalk, parking or other public
space within the corporate limits of the Town of Mount Airy, either
by placing, spilling, dropping or tracking from wheels of vehicles
or from the feet of animals, or otherwise, any earth, clay, mud, sand,
gravel or other material. If any such deposit occurs, every person
whose duty it is under this section to prevent such deposit shall
promptly remove the same. All macadamized or broken stone roadways
adjacent to excavations or traversed by vehicles either in the process
of conveying material from an excavation or in returning from the
place of deposit to place of excavation shall be covered with planking
so far as may be required to prevent any mud, earth, clay or other
material from the excavation or from the place of deposit from reaching
the surface of such roadway.
B.
No one being the owner, driver, manager or conductor
of any cart or other vehicle shall carry or convey or cause to be
carried or conveyed in such vehicle any coal, earth, sand, gravel,
broken stone, dirt, ashes, paper and other rubbish, or any loose fluid
or offensive articles or matter, or any articles whatsoever within
the corporate limits of said Town of Mount Airy so that the same shall
or may be scattered, dropped, let fall, blown or spilled therefrom;
and all vehicles conveying combustible refuse or foul, dusty or offensive
matter of any sort shall have tight bodies and be closely and securely
covered. All vehicles conveying wastepaper and wastepaper products,
baled, sacked or otherwise, shall be closely and securely covered.
C.
Owners of lots abutting upon streets, avenues or alleys
or upon public parking or other public space, in the Town and which
are above grade, shall protect such lots so as to prevent dirt, sand
or gravel or any bushes, trees or like thing from falling or being
washed upon the sidewalks, streets, alleyways or other public space
adjacent to the same.
D.
Owners or occupants of lots abutting upon streets or sidewalks, and
those undertaking lawn or yard cleanup, lawn cutting or maintenance
on such lots, shall refrain from blowing, tracking or otherwise depositing
grass clippings or other yard waste onto sidewalks, roads or gutters
without removing same within at least four hours.
[Added 3-4-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-1]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to play baseball or football in any manner upon any of the streets
or roads of Mount Airy.
[Added 8-1-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-2]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to authorize, aid, assist, participate or engage m the placing of
any sign, marking, obstruction, speed bump or in any way to alter,
deface or change the surface of any Town street or roadway without
obtaining prior written authorization therefor from the Mayor and
Council of the Town of Mount Airy which such written authorization
shall describe the location and of any work authorized thereunder
and which shall be strictly to.
B.
Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be subject to the fine and punishment prescribed in § C12-5A of Charter of the Town of Mount Airy.
C.
The words "Town street" or "roadway" mean the entire
width of any way or thoroughfare which is used by the public for vehicular
transit, whether or not the same has been formally offered for dedication
to the public or formally accepted by the Town, except, however, any
street or roadway owned or maintained by any county or by the state.
[Added 11-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-3[1]]
A.
The Council of the Town of Mount Airy is hereby empowered
to pass resolutions from time to time, in its discretion, designating
portions of sidewalks, streets and public rights-of-way as prohibiting
the use of skateboards or rollerblades thereon, provided that the
following such designation and prior to the issuance of any citation
for violation of such prohibition that the areas of sidewalks, streets
or public rights-of-way so designated shall be marked with appropriate
signs at the end or beginning of each block so designated or at intervals
of not less than 500 feet, such signs to read "No rollerblades or
skateboards" or similar words.
B.
Any violation of the provisions of Subsection A hereof by rollerblading or skateboarding upon any area of a sidewalk, street or public right-of-way as designated above shall be a municipal infraction subject to a penalty for each violation of $25 for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense.
[Amended 12-2-1985 by Ord. No. 144; 8-1-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-2]
Violation of any provision of this article which
is not elsewhere declared to be a misdemeanor is hereby deemed to
be a municipal infraction.
