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The provisions of this title and Title VII of this code are applicable to the drivers of all vehicles and animals upon streets, including, but not limited to, those owned or operated by the United States, the state or any county, town, city, district or other political subdivision.
(Prior Code, § 7.02)
(A) The provisions of this title and Title VII of this code relate exclusively to the streets, alleys and private roads in the city, and the operation and parking of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation and parking of vehicles upon the streets, alleys and private roads.
(B) It is a misdemeanor for any person to willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police or peace officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
(Prior Code, § 7.03) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) Council action. No device, sign or signal shall be erected or maintained for traffic or parking control unless the Council shall first have approved and directed the same, except as otherwise provided in this section; provided that, when traffic and parking control is marked or sign-posted, the marking or sign-posting shall attest to Council action thereon.
(B) Temporary restrictions. The city, acting through the Chief of Police, may temporarily restrict traffic or parking for any private, public or experimental purpose. It is the duty of the Chief of Police to so restrict traffic or parking when a hazardous condition arises or is observed.
(C) Traffic restrictions and prohibitions. It is a misdemeanor for any person to drive a vehicle contrary to lane restrictions or prohibitions painted on any street, or contrary to sign-posted, fenced or barricaded restrictions or prohibitions.
(D) Parking restrictions and prohibitions. It is unlawful for any person to park a vehicle, except an emergency vehicle, contrary to lane restrictions or prohibitions painted on any curb, or contrary to sign-posted, fenced or barricaded restrictions or prohibitions.
(E) Damaging or moving markings. It is a misdemeanor for any person to deface, mar, damage, move, remove or, in any way, tamper with any structure, work, material, equipment, tools, sign, signal, barricade, fence, painting or appurtenance in any street unless the person has written permission from the city or is an agent, employee or contractor for the city, or other authority having jurisdiction over a particular street, and acting within the authority or scope of a contract with the city or other authority.
(Prior Code, § 7.04) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) Ice and snow a nuisance. All snow and ice remaining upon public sidewalks is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance and shall be abated by the owner or tenant of the abutting private property within 12 hours after the snow or ice has ceased to be deposited.
(B) City to remove snow and ice. The city may cause to be removed from all public sidewalks, beginning 24 hours after snow or ice has ceased to fall, all snow or ice which may be discovered thereon, and it shall keep a record of the cost of the removal and the private property adjacent to which accumulations were found and removed.
(C) Cost of removal to be assessed. The City Administrator shall, upon direction of the Council, and on receipt of the information provided for in the preceding division (B), extend the cost of the removal of snow or ice as a special assessment against the lots or parcel of ground abutting on walks which were cleared, and the special assessments shall at the time of certifying taxes to the County Auditor be certified for collection as other special assessments are certified and collected.
(D) Civil suit for cost of removal. The City Administrator shall, in the alternative, upon direction of the Council, bring suit in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover from the persons owning land adjacent to which sidewalks were cleared, as provided in division (B) above, the cost of the clearing and the cost and disbursement of a civil action therefor.
(E) Administrator to report sidewalks cleared. The City Administrator shall present to the Council at its first meeting after snow or ice has been cleared from the sidewalks as provided in division (B) above the report of the city thereon, and shall request the Council to determine by resolution the manner of collection to be used as provided in divisions (C) or (D) above.
(Prior Code, § 7.05) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) Methods of procedure.
(1) Abutting or affected property owners may contract for, construct or reconstruct roadway surfacing, sidewalk or curb and gutter in accordance with this section if advance payment is made therefor or arrangements for payment considered adequate by the city are completed in advance.
(2) With or without petition by the methods set forth in the Local Improvement Code of state statutes, presently beginning with M.S. § 429.011, as may be amended from time to time.
(B) Permit required. It is a misdemeanor to construct or reconstruct a sidewalk, curb and gutter, driveway or roadway surfacing in any street or other public property in the city without a permit in writing from the city. Application for the permit shall be made on forms approved and provided by the
city and shall sufficiently describe the contemplated improvements, the contemplated date of beginning of work, and the length of time required to complete the same; provided that, no permit shall be required for any improvement ordered installed by the Council. All applications shall be referred by the City Administrator to the Public Works Director and no permit shall be issued until approval has been received from the Public Works Director. All applications shall contain an agreement by the applicant to be bound by this chapter and plans and specifications consistent with the provisions of this chapter and good engineering practices shall also accompany the application. A permit from the city shall not relieve the holder from damages to the person or property of another caused by the work.
(C) Specifications and standards. All construction and reconstruction of roadway surfacing, sidewalk and curb and gutter improvements, including curb cuts, shall be strictly in accordance with specifications and standards on file in the office of the City Administrator and open to inspection and copying there. The specifications and standards may be amended from time to time by the city, but shall be uniformly enforced.
(D) Inspection. The Public Works Director shall inspect improvements as deemed necessary or advisable. Any work not done according to the applicable specifications and standards shall be removed and corrected at the expense of the permit holder. Any work done hereunder may be stopped by the Public Works Director if found to be unsatisfactory or not in accordance with the specifications and standards, but this shall not place a continuing burden upon the city to inspect or supervise the work.
(Prior Code, § 7.06) Penalty, see § 90.999
The City Administrator, upon the recommendation of the Public Works Director, may from time to time impose upon vehicular traffic on any part or all of the streets load limits as may be necessary or desirable. The limits, and the specific extent or weight to which loads are limited, shall be clearly and legibly sign-posted thereon. It is a misdemeanor for any person to operate a vehicle on any street in violation of the limitation so posted.
(Prior Code, § 7.10) Penalty, see § 90.999
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