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No newsrack shall be placed, installed or maintained:
(a) Within five feet of any marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(b) Within five feet of a fire hydrant.
(c) At any location where the clear space for the passageway of pedestrians is reduced to less than six feet in the Central Business District, or less than three feet outside the Central Business District.
(d) On any area of lawn, flowers or shrubs or other similar landscaping, or in such a manner where ordinary use of the newsrack will cause damage to such landscaping.
(e) Within five feet of any driveway, alley, loading zone, handicapped ramp or curb cut.
(f) On any grating or manhole cover.
(g) On any surface where the newsrack will cause damage to or interfere with the use of any pipes, vault areas or telephone or electrical cables and wires.
(h) In the case of a multiple newsrack, within two feet of a curb face.
(i) Within the initial 20 feet of any area used by the Chicago Transit Authority for loading and unloading passengers at a bus stop, measured from the front position of the bus.
(j) Within a multiple newsrack area except as permitted by this article.
(k) Outside of a multiple newsrack area but within 200 feet of a multiple newsrack lawfully situated within such an area.
(l) Within five feet of a bicycle parking rack.
(m) Within five feet of a bicycle share station.
(Added Coun. J. 4-1-98, p. 65351; Amend Coun. J. 10-28-15, p. 11951, Art. VII, § 6)