As used in this chapter:
(a) "Distributor" shall mean the person responsible for placing and maintaining a newsrack in a public place.
(b) "Newsrack" shall mean any self-service or coin operated box, container, storage unit or other dispenser installed, used or maintained for the display and sale of newspapers or other news periodicals. This definition shall not include a portable platform or stand used by a person to distribute printed materials on a temporary basis, which is removed from the public place when not in use, so long as its use conforms to the location restrictions contained in this chapter.
(c) "Public place or places" shall mean public grounds, streets, sidewalks, alleys, bridges, culverts, overpasses, underpasses, grade crossing separations and approaches, public ways, squares and commons.
(Ord. 169. Passed 10-9-90.)
(a) No newsrack shall be located where it would endanger the safety of persons or property, obstruct the vision of motorists or unreasonably interfere with or impede the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic or the ingress into and egress from any building.
(b) No newsrack shall be located:
(1) Within six feet of any fire hydrant or other emergency facility;
(2) Where it projects beyond any curb line onto the roadway;
(3) Within three feet of any marked crosswalk;
(4) Within three feet of the curb return at an intersection;
(5) Within three feet of any curb return on any driveway;
(6) Where it unreasonably interferes with access to a bus shelter or a bus bench;
(7) Where it unreasonably interferes with loading or unloading at the front or rear door of buses;
(8) In any handicap access ramp;
(9) In such a manner as to reduce the clear space for the passageway of pedestrians to less than three feet;
(10) On any planted public place improved with lawn, flowers, shrubs or other landscaping.
(c) No newsrack shall exceed five feet in height, thirty inches in width or two feet in depth.
(Ord. 169. Passed 10-9-90.)
(a) No newsrack shall be used for advertising or publicity purposes other than dealing with the display, sale or purchase of a newspaper or new periodical sold therein.
(b) Each newsrack, except those newsracks dispensing publications without charge, shall be equipped with a coin return mechanism to permit a person using the machine to secure an immediate refund in the event such person is unable to receive the publication paid for. The coin return mechanism shall be maintained in good working order.
(c) Each newsrack shall have affixed to it, in a readily visible place, a notice setting forth the name and address of the distributor and the telephone service to call or report a malfunction or to secure a refund in the event of a malfunction of the coin return mechanism.
(d) Each newsrack shall be maintained in a neat and clean condition and in a good state of repair.
(Ord. 169. Passed 10-9-90.)
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