(A) Removal of safeguards or danger signals. No person shall willfully remove, tear down, destroy, or carry away from any highway, street, alley, avenue, or bridge any lamp, obstruction, guard or other article or things, or extinguish any lamp or other light, erected or placed thereupon for the purpose of guarding or enclosing unsafe or dangerous places in said highway, street, alley, avenue, or bridge without the consent of the person in control thereof (per Iowa Code § 716.5).
(B) Obstructing or defacing streets. No person shall obstruct, deface, or injure any public road in any manner by breaking up, plowing, or digging within the boundary lines thereof, without permission from the Mayor (per Iowa Code § 716.1).
(C) Allowing water, snow, ice, and accumulations on sidewalk. No abutting property owner shall allow water from an improperly located eave or drain, or from any roof, to fall onto a public sidewalk, or fail to remove snow, ice, and accumulations from the sidewalks promptly (per Iowa Code § 364.12(2)(b and e)).
(D) Removal of hydrant caps, sewer caps, or manhole covers. No person shall remove or carry away hydrant caps, sewer caps, or manhole covers without the consent of the person in control thereof.
(E) Placing debris on streets. It is unlawful for any person to throw or deposit on any street or alley any glass, glass bottle, nails, tacks, wire, cans, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter, offal, leaves, grass, or any other debris likely to be washed into the storm sewer and clog the storm sewer, or any substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle.
(Prior Code, § 3-1-4) (Ord. 03-04, passed 9-9-2003; Ord. 05-02, passed 6-14-2005) Penalty, see § 10.99