521.11 PROHIBITED OBSTRUCTIONS.
(a) Fire Escapes. No person shall encumber or obstruct any fire escape or emergency exit, or in any manner tamper with any fire door or emergency exit, in such manner as to hinder or prevent the immediate use of the same in the event of fire or other emergency.
(b) Utility Wires. No person shall place, construct or maintain any pole, line, wire, guy line, fixture or appliance for conducting electricity or for telephone transmission, on or over any highway, street or other public place, without the consent of the City.
(c) Fire Hydrants. No person shall obstruct the access to any fire hydrant or place or allow to be placed any obstruction in front thereof, between the curb line and the center of the street or within ten feet from each side of any such hydrant, or shall stand or park any machine within ten feet from each side of any such hydrant or within twenty feet from each side of the vehicle exit of any fire station.
(d) Fire or Police Vehicles. No person shall knowingly fail or neglect to give the right of way to any vehicle or apparatus of the Fire Department or Police Department, or being the operator of any vehicle, shall follow any apparatus of the Fire Department closer than five hundred feet when such fire apparatus is responding to a call.
(e) Emergency Exits. No person shall stand or park any vehicle, except while actually loading or unloading, in or upon that portion of any street, highway or public place, contiguous to and opposite any passageway, fire escape, emergency exit, or main entrance of any theater, auditorium, church or any other places of public assemblage.
(f) Marking of Prohibited Parking Areas at Exits. No person, being in charge of any theater, auditorium, church or other place of public assemblage, shall fail or neglect to designate the area in which parking is prohibited by subsection (e) hereof, by placing signs or stanchions approved by the Police Department.
Whoever violates subsections (a) or (c) to (f) hereof is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Whoever violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 90-1973. Passed 12-27-73.)