No telephone shall be permitted to rest upon, in or over any public street or sidewalk when such installation, use or maintenance:
A. 
Unreasonably interferes with or impedes the flow of pedestrians or vehicular traffic, including any legally parked or stopped vehicles;
B. 
Unreasonably interferes with the ingress or egress from any residence or place of business; or
C. 
Interferes with the use of traffic signs or signals, hydrants or mailboxes permitted at or near said location.
Telephones shall be placed or otherwise secured so as to prevent their being blown down or around the public street or sidewalk, but shall not be chained or otherwise secured to any traffic or street signs, signals, hydrants or mailboxes.
A. 
No telephones shall be placed, installed, used or maintained:
(1) 
Within any marked crosswalks;
(2) 
Within three feet of a curb return of any unmarked crosswalks;
(3) 
Within five feet of any fire hydrant, fire call box, police call box or other emergency facility;
(4) 
Within five feet of any driveway;
(5) 
Within three feet of any public area improved with a lawn, flowers, shrubs, trees or other landscaping;
(6) 
At any location whereby the clear space for the passageway of pedestrians is reduced to less than 10 feet;
(7) 
Within three feet of any building unless written permission is secured from the property owner and filed with the application; or
(8) 
Within 10 feet of any entrance to a residence, store or public building;
B. 
The city reserves the right to grant exceptions to the requirements set forth herein; these exceptions shall only be granted under such circumstances that do not impact upon the public health, safety and welfare of the City of Passaic and shall only be granted by the Business Administrator or designee.
[Amended 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 1193-92]
No telephone or telecommunication device shall be installed on or over the street or sidewalk without the permission of the abutting landowner.
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Editor's Note: Former § 280-20, Location at places of criminal activity prohibited, as amended, was repealed 10-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1236-93, which ordinance also provided for the renumbering of former §§ 280-21 through 280-26 as §§ 280-20 through 280-25, respectively.
[Amended 11-24-1992 by Ord. No. 1193-92; 10-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1236-93]
Pay telephones installed on public sidewalks after the effective date of this chapter, shall not be located any closer than a five-hundred-foot radius from any other pay telephone. This location provision shall not apply to properly permitted pay telephones which are located on city sidewalks prior to the effective date of this chapter Any telephone for which the permit has expired and is not renewed within 30 days of its expiration shall be subject to removal and shall be subject to the location requirements of this section. Telephones which are impounded or removed shall not be replaced except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.