No person or persons shall show, put, place, deposit, expose or keep
in or upon any avenue, street, sidewalk or public place any carriages, wagons,
carts, goods, merchandise or other personal property, except when used or
carried in transit or unless the consent of the Mayor, subject to approval
by the Common Council of said city, shall first be had and obtained for that
purpose.
No person or persons shall build, locate or erect any awning, sign,
well, pump, scale or other structure or any of the avenues, streets, back
streets, alleys, sidewalks or public places in said city unless the consent
of the Mayor, subject to approval by the Common Council of said city, shall
first be had and obtained for that purpose.
The Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to grant his/her consent,
in writing, for occupying a certain reasonable portion of any of the avenues,
streets or sidewalks for any of the purposes aforesaid, to any person or persons
applying therefor, whenever in his/her judgment there appears to be a reasonable
necessity or he/she shall deem it conducive to the welfare of the community,
provided always that he/she shall report all such cases to the Common Council
at the next stated meeting and that the Common Council shall then either approve
of or revoke the consent of the Mayor.
[Amended 8-26-1999 by Ord. No. 16-1999]
Each and every person violating any of the provisions of this article
shall be subject, upon conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding $1,000,
a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, in the discretion of the
Judge before whom said conviction shall be had.