(a) No wholesale or retail merchant, their agents or employees, or any other person, shall place or cause to be placed, on any sidewalk or pavement in the City, any boxes, barrels, tables, baskets, cans or other containers for the purpose of displaying goods, wares, vegetables, foodstuffs or other merchandise for sale. It shall likewise be unlawful for any such person to place or cause to be placed any such goods, wares, vegetables, foodstuffs or merchandise itself on any sidewalk or pavement in the City for the purpose of storing the same or displaying the same to the buying public.
(b) Any wholesale or retail merchant may place on the sidewalk, tables and chairs for customers to sit, as long as, in the judgment of designated City Officials, such tables and chairs do not interfere with safety or passage. It shall be a general rule that four feet of walkable space is needed to provide for regular sidewalk use.
(Passed 8-7-06.)