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.
[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.
[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.