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 J. 1-13-10, p. 83228, § 1, repealed § 10-28-075, which pertained to grants of privilege in the public way.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)

10-28-100 Ordinance to be posted.

   A copy of this ordinance shall be posted in a conspicuous place in every place of business or establishment which provides grocery carts or shopping carts for use by its customers or patrons.

(Prior code § 34-6.3)

10-28-110 Violation – Penalty.

   Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $200.00 for each such offense.

(Prior code § 34-6.4)

10-28-120 Police enforcement.

   It shall be the duty of the superintendent of police to see to the enforcement of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, and every policeman shall, whenever there is any obstruction in any public way, endeavor to remove the same; and, in case such obstruction shall be of such a character that the same cannot readily be removed, then such policeman shall report the same to the department of transportation, and the said department shall remove such obstruction.

(Prior code § 34-7; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832)