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It shall be unlawful for any person to break or destroy the curbing of any street of the city, or to otherwise deface the curb, or to construct any entrance into property on any of the paved streets of the city, unless the person shall have first obtained a permit so to do from the City Manager or his designate.
Any person wishing to cut, dig, or ditch across or in any street or sidewalk or alleyway, for any purpose, shall first obtain the written permission of the City Manager or his designate and then shall leave the area in good and passable condition. Failure to obtain permission before so digging or ditching in or across any sidewalk, street, or alley or failure to leave the digging or cutting in a passable condition shall constitute a violation of this section.
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow any trench, ditch or excavation in any street, sidewalk or public place of the city to remain open between sunset and sunrise or to allow any obstruction, building material, scaffold, impediment or obstacle to remain in or upon any street, sidewalk or public place in the city between sunset and sunrise, unless the obstruction, building material, scaffold, impediment, obstacle, trench, ditch or excavation has sufficient number of lights properly displayed around it as danger signals to prevent accidents to persons or property.
(1977 Code, § 3-1005)
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or extinguish any light which may be placed as a signal at night to warn persons of danger from ditches, trenches, excavations, building materials, scaffolds, impediments or obstacles of any description whatever, within the corporate limits of the city.
(1977 Code, § 3-1006)
(A) No parade, excepting the forces of the Unites States Army or Navy, the military forces of this state, and the forces of the Police and Fire Departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any street except in accordance with a permit issued by the City Manager or his designate.
(B) In deciding whether to issue a permit under this section, the City Manager or his designate shall consider:
(1) The number of persons to participate;
(2) The anticipated traffic conditions at the time and date proposed for the activity;
(3) The schedule of other similar activities for which permits may have been issued;
(4) The adequacy of adult supervision for any minor scheduled to participate;
(5) The availability of city personnel whose presence on duty may be required by the activity and by the necessity to protect the general public; and
(6) The adequacy of public facilities in the location proposed for the activity to accommodate the proposed activity and the normal public use of public facilities in the proposed location.
(A) Every occupant of a lot on any street within the jurisdiction of the city limits shall keep the sidewalk clear and free from obstruction as far as the lot extends (with the exception of sidewalk sales permitted within the designated Dillon Downtown Commercial Historic Overlay District in accordance with § 5-4-70(A)(7)). The gutter shall remain open and free from obstruction as far as the lot extends.
(B) If the space is not so kept clear and free and open from obstruction of any kind (with the exception of sidewalk sales permitted within the designated Dillon Downtown Commercial Historic Overlay District in accordance with § 5-4-70(A)(7) for a period of twelve (12) hours after notice from the Police Department, the occupant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1977 Code, § 3-1009) (Am. Ord. 18-03, passed 5-14-2018)
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