Chapter 13 · Streets and Sidewalks

Article 3. Streets

Sections 13-301 to 13-311 · 11 sections

13-301 Trespassing on parking; curbs.

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, ride or cross with either vehicles, livestock or by foot, any portion of the street parking adjacent to the premises of any person owning or occupying property in the city which has been prepared and plotted as parking to the premises. It shall further be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle over a curb or a sidewalk, except at an established entrance, or to break or remove any such sidewalk or curb without a permit therefore. The governing body may authorize the use of improved parking or the improvement of parking for the standing or parking of vehicles when the curb shall be removed and such portion of the street shall be improved for such purposes.

(R.O. 1955, 10-303)

13-302 Unlawful deposits.

It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place, deposit or leave or cause to be thrown, placed, deposited or left, in any of the public streets, alleys, parks, or thoroughfares in the city, any dirt, filth, sewage, sweepings, excrement, compost, papers, stable manure, boxes, ashes, lumber, coal, wood, kindling, grass, weeds, vegetables, slops or litter of any kind.

(R.O. 1955, 10-305)

13-303 Burning unlawful.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to burn leaves, trash or other combustible material in or on any street, alley or public ground in the city.

(R.O. 1955, 10-306)

13-304 Curb pumps prohibited.

No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter erect or install any gasoline or oil pumps or compressed air devices in or along the parking of any street or along the curb line thereof where it shall be necessary for the persons served by such pumps or devices to stop their vehicles in the streets while receiving such service. The governing body may by suitable resolution, cause all such devices now maintained within the street line anywhere in the city to be removed therefrom within a reasonable time.

(R.O. 1955, 10-307)

13-305 Posting bills.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to post or put up any handbill, advertisements, posters, show bills or other signs on any building, pole or property in or along any public street or way in the city, except with the permission of the owner thereof.

(R.O. 1955, 10-308)

13-306 Heavy vehicles.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to drive, operate or move any heavy vehicle, tractor, trailer, or other heavy object equipped with metal lugs, sharp metal rims on or over any paved streets in the city unless the paving shall be protected by planks sufficient to protect against injury from such lugs or rims, or unless such vehicles or objects are otherwise protected to save such street from injury.

(R.O. 1955, 10-310)

13-307 Hauling over streets.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to haul or carry over the streets, sidewalks or public ways any garbage, rubbish or refuse of any kind except in a vehicle so covered, constructed or protected as to prevent the escaping, splashing, or spilling of such material or substance therein contained or hauled.

(R.O. 1955, 10-311)

13-308 Injury by petroleum products.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit or throw any waste, crankcase oil, fuel oil, coal oil, gasoline, or other petroleum liquid products or acids into or on or willfully permit the same to be spilled, dripped, or otherwise come into contact with the surface of any street improvement by asphalt paving.

(R.O. 1955, 10-313)

13-309 Removal of barricades and light unlawful.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to remove, throw down, run down, destroy or otherwise injure any barricade or safety wall erected as required or to remove carry away or injure any warning lights placed on or about any such work, except such person who shall be in charge of any such work.

(R.O. 1955, 10-314)

13-310 Railroad crossings.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to stand any railroad car, engine or caboose on any railroad crossing in the city for a longer period than five minutes in the case of freight cars and trains, and 10 minutes in the case of passenger trains, or to stand any such rolling stock within 15 feet to the street line nearest such car, engine or caboose when the same shall not be a part of any train standing on the crossing.

(R.O. 1955, 10-315)

13-311 Same; warning devices.

(a)It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of railways passing through the city to obstruct railway street crossing or otherwise activate or permit to be activated warning devices at such crossing except on those occasions reasonably necessary to warn motorists of approaching train traffic.

(b)In the event that such warning devices are inadvertently or erroneously activated, or in the event that such devices fail to deactivate after passage of train traffic, it shall be the duty of the railway company then maintaining such crossing to take immediate steps to deactivate the same. In the further event that railway repair personnel have not arrived at the site of such equipment to deactivate the same within one hour of notification, any police officer employed by the city, or such person as shall be personally designated by him or her, shall be permitted without liability to take whatever steps are reasonably necessary to remove physical barriers which impede the flow of motor vehicle traffic over the affected roadway and silence audible alarms which are deemed to be of such a volume as to reasonably cause irritation to surrounding property owners.

(c)The failure of any railway company to respond within one hour to a complaint of erroneously activated warning devices shall constitute a violation of this section, and upon conviction thereof, such railway company shall be fined an amount not to exceed $500. For purposes of this section, each and every additional hour of such railway company’s failure to respond after receiving notification shall constitute a separate and distinct violation.

(Ord. 311, Sec. 1:3)