(A) Encumbrances. No person shall encumber any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way within the city. No owner, occupant, or person having the care of any building or lot of land, bordering on any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way shall permit it to be encumbered with any object, including, but not limited to, barrels, boxes, cans, articles, or substances of any kind, so as to interfere with the free and unobstructed use thereof.
(B) Prohibited actions. Except for the actions of city employees and contractors carrying out their normal duties, no person shall:
(1) Remove from private property any deposit of snow or ice and place the same upon the improved portion of any right-of-way;
(2) Dig any holes in any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way without a valid permit required by this chapter;
(3) Remove any earth, gravel, or rock from any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way without a valid permit required by this chapter;
(4) Obstruct any ditch draining any street or drain any noisome materials into any ditch;
(5) Deface, mar, damage, or tamper with any structure, work, material, equipment, tools, signs, markers, signals, paving, guardrails, drains, or any other highway appurtenance on or along any street, sidewalk, or right-of-way;
(6) Remove, injure, displace, or destroy right-of-way markers, or reference or witness monuments, or markers placed to preserve section or quarter-section corners; or
(7) Drive over, through, or around any barricade, fence, or obstruction erected for the purpose of preventing traffic from passing over a portion of a street or sidewalk that is closed to the public.
(Ord. 204, passed 12-18-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99