CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT AREA: The area lying between the project right of way limits and the platted street limits which the city, by concurrence in the establishment of the project right of way lines, will permit the state to enter to perform all necessary construction operations.
ENCROACHMENT: Any building, fence, sign or any other structure or object of any kind (with the exception of utilities and public road signs), which is placed, located or maintained, in, on, under or over any portion of the project right of way or the roadway right of way where no project right of way line has been established.
PERMISSIBLE ENCROACHMENT: Any existing awning, marquee, advertising sign or similar overhanging structure supported from a building immediately adjacent to the limits of the platted street where there is a sidewalk extending to the building lane and which does not impair the free and safe flow of traffic on the highway, the permissive retention of overhanging signs is not to be construed as being applicable to those signs supported from poles constructed outside the project right of way line and not confined by adjacent buildings.
PROJECT RIGHT OF WAY: Those areas within the project right of way lines established jointly by the city, state, and the United States department of transportation, which will be free of encroachments except as hereinafter defined.
ROADWAY RIGHT OF WAY: Those areas existing or acquired by dedication or by fee simple for highway purposes; also, the areas acquired by temporary easement during the time the easement is in effect. (Ord. 76-322, 8-30-1976)
Improvement projects for which encroachments are specifically regulated are as follows:
U.S. Route 45 (SBI Route 25, State Section (6,7)Z, RS-1 and 6TS, City Section 75-00017-00TL, from the west corporate limits easterly to Stanford Street. (Ord. 76-322, 8-30-1976)
Vincennes Avenue from Mill Street to Emory Avenue. Any person, firm or corporation violating this encroachment shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed for each and every day during which a violation continues or exists. (Ord. 78-381, 1978)
FAP 327 (U.S. Route 50/45) between the intersection of U.S. Route 50 and FA 26 (U.S. Route 45) west of Flora and the intersection of U.S. 50 and North State Street in the city of Flora, Illinois. Any person, firm or corporation violating this encroachment, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and no more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense or separate offense shall be deemed committed each and every day in which a violation continues or exists. (Ord. 05-1966, 11-21-2005)
Representatives of the city and the state will have, by visual inspection, cooperatively established project right of way lines and mutually determine the disposition of encroachments. (Ord. 76-322, 8-30-1976)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect or cause to be erected, to retain or cause to be retained, any encroachment, within the limits of the project right of way or roadway right of way where no project right of way lines have been established. (Ord. 76-322, 8-30-1976)
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