(A) Damage. No person shall make or cause any break, damage or hole in or to any sidewalk.
(B) Coasting or sledding. No person shall engage in coasting or sledding on any sidewalk.
(C) Driving. No person shall drive or stand any vehicle on, over or across any sidewalk or parkway, except for driving upon an established driveway across such sidewalk or parkway.
(D) Excavations. No person, making any excavation upon or adjoining any sidewalk, or having the same in charge, shall leave the same open and unprotected at night so as to endanger the safety of persons or animals.
(E) Garbage and refuse. No person shall deposit or place any refuse or garbage upon any sidewalk.
(F) Writing. No person shall paint, print or write on any sidewalk without permission of the Village Board.
(G) Sharp materials. No person shall deposit, place or leave upon any sidewalk any broken glass, crockery, nails, tacks, iron cuttings, wire or other articles likely to wound, injure or damage any human, beast or vehicle.
(H) Openings. Every opening or stairwell into any coal hole, chute, cellar, basement, vault or other hole adjacent to, under or in any sidewalk, shall be at all times kept covered with a substantial iron plate or cover, having a rough surface and set even with the top of the sidewalk, or shall be surrounded by iron railing and gate. The construction or maintaining of any such opening or stairwell may at any time be stopped or prevented by the village. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of any such opening or stairwell for its intended purpose, using all proper precautions for the safety of the public, and only opening the same in the daytime while in actual use.
(I) Projections. No person shall construct or place any portico, porch, door, window, railing, areaway or steps, which shall project into or over any sidewalk, without permission of the Village Board.
(J) Downspouts. No person shall erect or maintain any downspout or pipe from the eaves or roof of any building, constructed in such a manner as to discharge rain water or surface water upon any sidewalk.
(K) Flooding. No person shall dam, obstruct or change the natural current of any watercourse, or dam or obstruct any ditch, sewer, drain or culvert, so as to flood or damage any sidewalk.
(L) Snow removal. The owner and occupant of land abutting the street dedication or right-of-way upon which a sidewalk exists, shall keep and maintain such sidewalk free and clear of ice and snow. Such persons shall remove snow from such sidewalk within 12 hours after the cessation of any snowfall.
(M) Scooters, skateboards, and roller skates.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or ride a scooter, skateboard, or roller skates in any of the following places:
(a) On any sidewalk in the business district of the village, being all that part of the village described as follows:
1. 1st Avenue between Cherry Street and White Oak Road;
2. Walnut Avenue between Cherry Street and State Street;
3. Main Street between 1st Avenue and Chestnut Avenue; and
4. Cherry Street between 1st Avenue and Walnut Avenue.
(b) On any public property where signs are posted prohibiting such use, such as parking lots; and
(c) On private property where a sign prohibiting such items has been posted by the owner, lessee or person in charge of the property.
(2) Operators of scooters, skateboards or roller skates shall yield the right-of-way to other pedestrians using other public sidewalks and shall not otherwise endanger or interfere with pedestrian traffic on those sidewalks.
(Prior Code, § 4-1-13) (Ord. 89-1, passed 3-13-1989; Ord. 90-12, passed 10-15-1990) Penalty, see § 152.99