It shall be unlawful for any person making an excavation or doing any work adjacent to or under any sidewalk or street to do any such work without proper barricades or safety guards or lights or to obstruct any street, alley or sidewalk of the city by placing or disposing therein building materials, or to obstruct any such street, alley, sidewalk without first securing the approval of the city engineer. Upon completion of the work, the contractor or person in charge shall clean up the public ways within not less than 10 days after the completion of the work.

(Code 1975, 17-301)

It shall be unlawful for any person to open or reconstruct any entrance into a cellar-way in a sidewalk or street without the approval of the governing body. All cellar-ways or pavement entrances now existing in any sidewalk or street, or which may hereafter be so constructed, shall be protected by a good and substantial iron railing to be approved by the building inspector in accordance with the building code. Any person who shall open or leave unprotected any cellar entrance, cellar-way, coal hole or grating in any street or sidewalk in the city, or permit the same to remain or be in an unsafe condition shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00.

(Code 1975, 17-302)

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 curb or a sidewalk, except at an established entrance, or to break or remove any such sidewalk or curb without a permit therefor; provided, that the governing body may authorize the use of the parking for the standing or parking of vehicles under such conditions as may be determined by the governing body.

(Code 1975, 17-303)

It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or allow to be left any implements, tools, boxes, merchandise, goods, trash cans, crates, garbage containers, corn poppers, peanut or popcorn roasters, ice cream containers, advertising or showcases on any sidewalk, street, alley or traveled way in the city longer than is necessary for unloading or loading the same; provided, that the city manager may grant temporary permission for a limited time only for the sidewalks, streets, alleys or traveled way to be used by the occupants of premises adjacent thereto when the same shall not endanger or inconvenience the public. The city reserves the right at any time upon notice to the owner or occupant of such premises to order the removal of any such obstruction at the expense of the owner or occupant, the same to be collected as provided by law.

(Code 1975, 17-304)

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, garbage, stable manure, boxes, ashes, lumber, coal, wood, kindling, grass, weeds, vegetables, sops or litter of any kind.

(Code 1975, 17-305)

No person 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 curbline thereof where it shall be necessary for the person served by such pumps or devices to stop their vehicles in the streets while receiving such service.

(Code 1975, 17-307)

It shall be unlawful for any person to post or put up any handbill, advertisements, posters, showbills 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.

(Code 1975, 17-308)

It shall be unlawful for any person to place, throw, or cause to be placed or thrown on any street, alley, sidewalk or other public property of the city any glass, tacks, nails, bottles or any other substance or thing that might do injury to any person or animals, or cut or puncture any pneumatic tire when passing over the same.

(Code 1975, 17-309)

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate or move any heavy vehicle, tractor, trailer or other heavy object equipped with metal lugs or 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.

(Code 1975, 17-310)

It shall be unlawful for any person 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.

(Code 1975, 17-311)

It shall be unlawful for any person to walk upon, drive over or across any pavement, sidewalk or similar public improvement in the street, during the course of construction and before the same has been opened for public travel.

(Code 1975, 17-312)

It shall be unlawful for any person 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 improved by asphalt paving.

(Code 1975, 17-313)

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, throw down, run down, destroy or otherwise injure any barricade or safety wall erected as required by ordinance, 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.

(Code 1975, 17-314)

No person operating or who may hereafter operate a railroad into or through the city shall permit any train to remain across any street crossing or sidewalk of the city so as to interfere with the passage of vehicles and pedestrians for a longer period of time than 10 minutes, and in case it is necessary for such train to remain standing for a longer period of time than 10 minutes, it shall be uncoupled at such crossing and the cars separated so that vehicles and pedestrians may pass.

(Code 1975, 17-315)

For the purpose of allowing unobstructed passage of traffic and the maintenance of public utilities in the streets, alleys, parkings and easements of the city, it is hereby declared that in all areas hereinafter annexed to or subdivided in the city, all streets shall be a minimum width of 60 feet or greater as directed by the governing body, and all alleys shall have a minimum width of 20 feet and all utility easements and parkings and other public property in which utilities may hereafter be installed shall have a minimum width of 14 feet.

(Code 1975, 17-316)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article, for which another penalty is not specifically provided shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00, or be imprisoned not to exceed 30 days, or be both so fined and imprisoned; provided, that if any person shall continue any obstruction or make any unlawful use, as in this article provided, of any sidewalk, street or public way in the city after being notified by the director of public safety to remove the obstruction or cease to make unlawful use of such place, the same shall constitute a separate offense hereunder.

(Code 1975, 17-317)