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It shall be a civil offense for any person, club, organization or other group to hold any meeting, parade, demonstration or exhibition on the public streets without some responsible representative first
securing a permit from the city. No permit shall be issued by the city unless such activity will not unreasonably interfere with traffic and unless such representative shall agree to see to the immediate cleaning up of all litter which shall be left on the streets as a result of the activity. Furthermore, it shall be a civil offense for any person obtaining such a permit to fail to carry out his or her agreement to immediately clean up the resulting litter immediately.
(1994 Code, § 16-110) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) It shall be a civil offense for any person to ride, lead or tie any animal or ride, push, pull or place any vehicle across or upon any sidewalk in such manner as to unreasonably interfere with or inconvenience pedestrians using the sidewalk. It shall also be a civil offense for any person to knowingly allow any minor under his or her control to violate this section.
(B) It shall be a civil offense for any person to ride or lead a horse on any sidewalk in the city at any time. Horses may not be ridden or led upon any street, highway or roadway within the city limits during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, nor at any other times when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible any horse on any such road or highway at a distance of 200 feet; provided, however, nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit riding or leading horses upon said street, highway or roadway for one hour prior to a lawful parade in the city, during said parade and for one hour after said parade.
(1994 Code, § 16-112) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99
It shall be a civil offense for any person to set or contribute to any fire in any public street, alley or sidewalk.
(1994 Code, § 16-113) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99
EXCAVATIONS AND CUTS
It shall be a civil offense for any person, firm, corporation, association or others, to make any excavation in any street, alley or public place, or to tunnel under any street, alley or public place without having first obtained a permit as herein required, and without complying with the provisions of this subchapter; and it shall also be a civil offense to violate, or vary from, the terms of any such permit; provided, however, any person maintaining pipes, lines or other underground facilities in or under the surface of any street may proceed with an opening without a permit when emergency circumstances demand the work to be done immediately and a permit cannot reasonably and practicably be obtained beforehand. The person shall thereafter apply for a permit on the first regular business day on which the office of the Public Works Director is open for business and said permit shall be retroactive to the date when the work was begun.
(1994 Code, § 16-201) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99
Editor’s note:
This chapter was patterned substantially after the ordinance upheld by the Tennessee Supreme Court in the case of City of Paris, Tennessee v. Paris-Henry County Public Utility District, 207 Tenn. 388, 340 S.W.2d 885 (1960).
Applications for such permits shall be made to the Public Works Director, or such person as he or she may designate to receive such applications, and shall state thereon the location of the intended excavation or tunnel, the size thereof, the purpose thereof, the person, firm, corporation, association or others doing the actual excavating, the name of the person, firm, corporation, association or others for whom the work is being done, and shall contain an agreement that the applicant will comply with all ordinances and laws relating to the work to be done. Such application shall be rejected or approved by the Public Works Director within 24 hours of its filing.
(1994 Code, § 16-202)
(A) The fee for such permits shall be $200. This fee is to cover the costs of inspection of backfill, and an asphalt patch of up to 48 square feet. Any excavation larger than 48 square feet shall require an additional fee, to be determined by the Public Works Director based on the size of the excavation.
(B) (1) In addition to the fee(s) set forth in division (A) above, there shall be an additional fee imposed when any street cut results in any section of a city street having street cut(s) that comprise 20% or more of any 500-foot section of that street.
(a) This additional fee will be equal to the city’s cost of repaving that 500-foot section of that city street.
(b) This additional fee will be paid by the entity making the street cut. When more than one entity is responsible for the street cuts within a particular 500-foot section, the additional fee shall be prorated between the entities making the street cuts on a percentage basis. The percentage assessed to each entity will be equal to their percentage of the total street cuts that exist within a particular 500- foot section.
(2) This assessment is illustrated by the following example: assume Entity A makes a street cut in a particular city street that results in 20% or more of a 500-foot section of that city street having street cuts. Assume further that after this last street cut is made there are a total of 15 street cuts within that 500-foot section of that city street. Assume further that one entity made ten of those street cuts and another entity made five. The first entity would pay the city an amount equal to two-thirds of the city’s costs of repaving that 500-foot section of the city street, and the second entity would pay the remaining one-third.
(C) The additional fee set forth in division (B) above will not be charged if that 500-foot section of that particular city street is already scheduled to be repaved by the city within five years.
(1994 Code, § 16-203) (Ord. 730, passed 8-27-2012)
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