(a) No person shall use the streets or sidewalks of the city for the sale or display of goods or wares, or merchandise of any kind or character whatsoever, except such persons as have been duly licensed, and have obtained a permit from the City Council so to do.
(b) The Mayor and City Council are authorized where it is necessary to preserve health to establish zones of quiet. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating a zone of quiet, no person operating a motor vehicle within any such zone shall sound the horn or other warning device of such vehicle except in an emergency.
(c) The Mayor and City Council may issue permits revocable at will to be issued to any person to use the streets and sidewalks for the purposes stated above, when and if in his or her discretion such use will not interfere with traffic regulation or the health and safety of the public, and in issuing any such permit may include therein such conditions, prohibitions, and restrictions as he or she may deem necessary for the orderly flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and for the health and safety of the public.
(d) No person shall use or operate a skateboard or other like play vehicle upon the streets, sidewalks, or coast thereon with sleds. It shall be unlawful for anyone to use or operate a skateboard, or other like play vehicle upon any other city street, sidewalk, or public way in such a manner that the same would be hazardous to the pedestrians, motorists, or the operator of the play vehicle.
(e) No person shall violate or fail to comply with the terms, conditions, prohibitions, or restrictions of any such permit.
(f) No person shall use or operate a skateboard or other like play vehicle upon the streets, sidewalks, or public ways within the Historic District, or coast thereon with sleds. It shall be unlawful for anyone to use or operate a bicycle, skateboard, or other like play vehicle upon any other city street, sidewalk, or public way in such a manner that the same would be hazardous to the pedestrians, motorists, or the operator of the play vehicle.
(g) No person shall ride, drive, roll, or wheel any bicycle upon or along any sidewalk or footwalk, except to cross said sidewalk or footwalk for access to a street or roadway. Every person riding a bicycle upon a street or roadway shall be subject to all of the duties and responsibilities set forth in Article 373.
(h) Any person violating the provision of divisions (f) or (g) above shall have the offending bicycle, skateboard, or other like play vehicle confiscated by the Police Department until claimed by a parent or guardian, and be subject to a fine of $25. Second or subsequent offenses shall be subject to a fine of $50.