a. No person shall place, throw, deposit or allow to accumulate or grow or cause to be erected or placed on any street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, or any other public right-of-way, easement or public property, any building, brick mailbox, column, rubbish, garbage, construction or demolition debris, landscaping debris, furniture, signs, large rocks or boulders, fences, posts, stakes, weeds, inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicle, junk or scrap metal as hereinabove declared to be a public nuisance, abandoned property or any other obstruction or encroachment of any nature and any other materials which may do injury to any person, animal or property, including any person traveling on the street, alley, sidewalk or other public property, except for premises authorized by the City for such purposes.
b. Every person owning, occupying or having control or management of any building or lot in the City shall also keep the sidewalk adjacent to such building or lot open and free from all obstructions, barriers and impediments of every description and shall not allow or permit any tree, brush, hedge or other vegetation to grow in a manner which interferes with normal sidewalk traffic or vehicular traffic within the public right-of-way or to permit any tree, brush, hedge or other vegetation to become diseased to such an extent that it becomes a hazard to persons or property using the sidewalk or streets adjacent to such property.
c. No person owning, occupying or having control or management of any building or lot shall deposit snow on any city streets, sidewalks or public ways. No person owning, occupying or having control or management of any building or lot shall allow any drainage appurtenances to cause ice accumulation on any city streets, sidewalks or public ways.
d. In addition to any other remedies in this Chapter, any materials in violation of this Section found on City streets, sidewalks, public ways, public or private drainage areas and other public property may be removed immediately by the City without notice to the property owner. Notwithstanding the above provisions, public utility infrastructure shall be allowed.
e. Any unauthorized or prohibited sign as defined in Article 4 of the Zoning Ordinance, or which is constructed, located or situated on city rights-of-way may be removed by the City. The City, within its discretion, may destroy such signs.
(Ord. BG2003-61, 12/2/2003; Ord. BG2009-11, 5/19/2009; Ord. BG2014-12, 8/5/2014; Ord. BG2016-24, 8/2/2016; Ord. BG2022-41, 9/6/2022)