No person shall remove, displace, break or change
any sign or lights or signals set up or placed in any street or public
place as a warning of danger or indicating an excavation or obstruction
or showing that any street or public place is closed to traffic. No
person shall, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, extinguish
any light used for such purposes.
No person shall open any manhole in any street
or public place or remove the cover thereof, unless such opening shall
be guarded by a guardrail and shall be so marked by both day and night
so as to be plainly seen at a distance of 50 feet, which guardrail
shall be maintained so long as such manhole shall remain unopened
or uncovered.
[Amended 12-20-1998 by Ord. No. 837]
No person shall sled, toboggan or participate in similar activities upon any street, unless such street or the portion thereof used for sledding, tobogganing and similar activities shall be closed to vehicular traffic pursuant to §
235-30.
[Amended 12-20-1998 by Ord. No. 837]
The Mayor and Council may, by resolution, designate
certain streets or portions thereof upon which sledding, tobogganing
and similar activities will be permitted at certain times of the day
and may direct that such street or portion thereof shall be closed
to vehicular traffic during such hours. When any street or portion
thereof shall be closed, there shall be a sign at each end of the
portion closed, plainly visible to approaching traffic, reading substantially
as follows: "Street Closed—Passing Forbidden." No person shall
drive or cause to be propelled any vehicle over any street or portion
thereof so closed and marked. For the purpose of this section, a sleigh
or sled used for sledding, tobogganing and similar activities shall
not be construed as a vehicle.
The Superintendent of Public Works may close
any street or public place or section thereof to public traffic for
the purpose of repairing, constructing or reconstructing the same.
When any street or public place or portion thereof shall be closed,
there shall be a sign at each end of the portion closed, plainly visible
to approaching traffic, reading substantially as follows: "Street
Closed—Passing Forbidden." No person shall drive or cause to
be propelled any vehicle over any street or portion thereof so closed
and marked.