§ 64-162. Prohibited acts.  


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  • (a)

    Fixtures or personal property. No person shall deposit, place, erect or maintain any banner, structure, material, article, substance, decoration or thing on, in or above any street, curb, gutter, park, parkway, sidewalk or public place of the city except as specifically otherwise provided for by law.

    (b)

    Buildings. No person shall build, construct, use, maintain or in any way occupy any house, shanty or other building or structure of any kind located on, in or above any street, sidewalk or public square, except as specifically otherwise provided for by law.

    (c)

    Vaults, coal holes or other openings. No person shall excavate or cause to be excavated, near or adjoining any street, sidewalk or other public place any vault, area, coal hole, basement, cellar or opening except as specifically otherwise provided for by law.

    (d)

    Cellar doors. No person, including the owner or occupant of any house, building, lot or premises in front of or alongside of which there is any sidewalk, shall build, construct, use, maintain or allow any cellar door or grating, or any covering of any vault, area, coal hole or basement, to rise above the surface of such sidewalk, or construct, maintain or allow any fastenings or hinges of such cellar door, grating or covering to be or remain on the upper side thereof.

    (e)

    Display of merchandise. No person shall place, leave, deposit or hang up any food, showcases, goods, wares or merchandise in or upon any street, sidewalk or footway, or cause or permit such acts to be done, except as specifically otherwise provided for by law.

    (f)

    Sale of livestock. No person shall buy, sell or barter or to offer to buy, sell or barter any swine or livestock of any description upon any of the streets within the corporate limits of the city.

    (g)

    Sales causing obstruction. No person shall, in or upon any street or sidewalk, sell or attempt to sell, expose, offer or cry for sale or exhibit any goods, wares, merchandise, chattels or other personal property to any person, except as specifically otherwise provided for by law.

    (h)

    Sawing firewood. No person shall saw or cause to be sawed any firewood in or upon any sidewalk, footway or street crossing.

(Ord. No. 141025 , § 1, 12-18-14)