10-28-064 Advertising signs.

   Except as specifically permitted by this Code or by a duly enacted ordinance or when authorized by contract entered into by the chief procurement officer in cooperation with the commissioner of transportation pursuant to Section 10-28-045, or by contract entered into by the chief financial officer and approved by the city council pursuant to Section 10-28-046, no person shall place, install or knowingly maintain on the surface of the public way any sign or a structure or device to which such a sign is affixed. Any such sign, structure or device that is placed, installed or maintained on the public way in violation of this section is hereby declared a public nuisance and may be removed at any time by the commissioner of business affairs and consumer protection at the expense of the person responsible for the violation.

   Any person who violates this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than $200.00 and not more than $500.00 for each offense. Each day that such violation occurs shall be considered a separate offense.

(Prior code § 34-5.1; Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18399; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832; Amend Coun. J. 11-30-94, p. 62597; Amend Coun. J. 4-16-97, p. 42736; Amend Coun. J. 6-9-99, p. 5442; Amend Coun. J. 7-27-05, p. 53211, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. V, § 5; Amend Coun. J. 11-8-12, p. 38872, § 185; Amend Coun. J. 12-12-12, p. 44485, § 7; Amend Coun. J. 5-6-15, p. 108095, § 1)

10-28-066 Advertising sign – Defined.

   An advertising sign is a sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment regardless of where it is conducted, sold or offered.

(Prior code § 34-5.2; Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18399; Amend Coun. J. 1-12-94, p. 44543)

10-28-070 Storage of goods on public ways.

   (a)   (1)   Except as otherwise specifically permitted by this Code, no person shall use any public way for the storage of personal property, goods, wares or merchandise of any kind. Nor shall any person place or cause to be placed in or upon any public way, any barrel, box, hogshead, crate, package or other obstruction of any kind, or permit the same to remain thereon longer than is necessary to convey such article to or from the premises abutting on such sidewalk.

      (2)   For the purpose of receiving or delivering merchandise, no person shall occupy more than four (4) feet of the outer edge of the sidewalk in front of the store or building where such merchandise is being received or delivered.

      (3)   No person engaged in the business of repossessing motor vehicles of any type shall store or park any such repossessed vehicle on the public way. Any person violating any provision of this subsection (a)(3) shall be subject to a fine of $500.00 for each offense. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

   (b)   Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $250.00 for each offense. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

(Prior code § 34-6; Amend Coun. J. 3-9-05, p. 44132, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 5-9-07, p. 105047, § 17; Amend Coun. J. 6-6-12, p. 28654, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 5-28-14, p. 81917, § 4)

10-28-075 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 1-13-10, p. 83228, § 1, repealed § 10-28-075, which pertained to grants of privilege in the public way.

ARTICLE II. CARTS BELONGING TO RETAIL STORES (10-28-080 et seq.)

10-28-080 Abandonment of shopping carts prohibited.

   No person shall abandon or leave unattended any grocery cart or shopping cart upon any public street, sidewalk or public way within the City of Chicago or upon the private property of any person adjoining or abutting any public way or sidewalk within the City of Chicago other than the premises where said cart was originally obtained.

(Prior code § 34-6.1)

10-28-090 Removal from premises prohibited.

   No person shall remove or license or permit the removal of grocery cart or shopping cart from the premises and parking lot of the establishment which furnished said cart.

(Prior code § 34-6.2)