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 Fences and landscape elements in a parkway – Requirements.

   (a)   For the purpose of this section, "parkway" has the same meaning ascribed to that term in Section 10-32-010.

   (b)   In addition to any other applicable legal requirements, it shall be unlawful for any person to place a fence, or other solid landscape element that rises above two inches in height from the ground, in a parkway within eighteen inches of the street side face of the curb.

   (c)   The Commissioner of Transportation shall have authority to provide exceptions from the prohibition in this section in cases where the Commissioner determines that it is in the best interests of the City that fencing or solid landscaping be placed within the parkway, including, but not limited to, for construction purposes or the installation of tree pit grates and infiltrating planters.

   (d)   This section does not apply to any fence or other solid landscape element that the City installs in the parkway nor to sidewalk cafes that are permitted by the City under Article XII of Chapter 10-28 of this Code.

   (e)   Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 for each offense, and each day such offense continues shall constitute a distinct and separate offense.

   (f)   The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to adopt rules for the proper administration and enforcement of this section.

(Added Coun. J. 10-14-21, p. 37479, § 1)

Editor's note – Coun. J. 1-13-10, p. 83228, § 1, repealed a former § 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)