TITLE FOUR - Public Ways and Traffic Control Devices
CHAPTER 420
Obstruction and Special Uses of Public Ways
420.01   Repairing vehicles in streets.
420.02   Placing injurious materials in streets.
420.03   Closing of streets due to flood emergencies.
 
420.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Animals and animal-drawn vehicles on roadways - see R.S.N. § 39-605
   Persons working on highways - see R.S.N. § 39-606
   Rubbish on highways - see R.S.N. § 39-683
   Obstructing traffic generally - see TRAF. 460.07
   Obstructing streets by trains - see GEN. OFF. 654.02
   Railroad crossings - see GEN. OFF. 654.05 et seq.
   Obstructions and maintenance of street and sidewalk areas - see S.U. & P.S. Ch. 1030
420.01 REPAIRING VEHICLES IN STREETS.
   (a)   No person shall adjust or repair any motor vehicle or motorcycle or race the motor of the same while standing on the public streets of the City, except in case of a breakdown or other emergency requiring such repair.
   (b)   No employee connected with a garage or repair shop or other person shall use sidewalks or streets in the vicinity of such garage or shop for the purpose of working on motor vehicles or motorcycles of any kind.
(1958 Code § 16.23)
420.02 PLACING INJURIOUS MATERIALS IN STREETS.
   (a)   No person shall throw, cast, lay or place upon any street within the City any thorns, nails, tacks, glass, bottles, window glass or other articles made of or containing glass.
   (b)   In the case of an accident causing the breaking of any glass upon any such street, no owner or person in charge of such glass, and no person responsible for such breakage, shall fail to remove or cause the same to be removed from the street at once.
(1958 Code § 16.25)
420.03 CLOSING OF STREETS DUE TO FLOOD EMERGENCIES.
   (a)   When water as a result of any storm event or other cause begins to collect in the City streets, highways and roadways so as to encroach upon the sidewalks or pool in or cover any street, highway or roadway in the area described in subsection (b) hereof, or in the event advance notification is received by the Chief of Police of the City that such a storm event is likely to occur, the Chief of Police or his or her designee shall notify the City Manager or his or her designee, who will declare a state of flooding emergency and reference the area described in subsection (b) hereof. Barricades and signs prohibiting entry by vehicle into the area described in subsection (b) hereof will be strategically placed. Announcements of the flooding emergency will be made on local radio and on the public access television channel. Police, law enforcement officers and other safety personnel will be placed strategically on the main arterial streets through the area described in subsection (b) hereof to provide notification and close the area to vehicular traffic.
   (b)   The flood emergency area shall be defined as follows:
      (1)   Hickory, Illinois, Jackson and King Streets, from 9th Avenue to 14th Avenue, and 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Avenues, between Hickory Street and Linden Street.
      (2)   5th, 6th and 7th Avenues, from Illinois Street to Linden Street, and Linden Street, from 5th Avenue to 7th Avenue.
      (3)   10th Avenue, from the intersection of Maple Street to the intersection of Osage Street.
      (4)   13th Avenue, between the intersections of Illinois Street and Grant Street.
      (5)   Elm Street, from 7th Avenue to the Burlington Railroad Overpass.
   (c)   With the exception of law enforcement and emergency service vehicles, no person shall operate any motor vehicle in or upon the streets, highways or roadways described in subsection (b) hereof during any flood emergency without written authorization or a permit issued by a law enforcement officer.
   (d)   No person shall drive around any barricade placed upon any street, highway or roadway to designate closure due to flooding or other emergency.
   (e)   No person shall fail to obey the order of any police officer or other law enforcement officer closing the area described in subsection (b) hereof to vehicular traffic.
   (f)   Property owners, tenants and business employees may apply for written authorization or a permit, in advance, to the Police Chief, a police officer or other law enforcement officer stationed on the major arterial streets at the boundaries of the flood emergency area described in subsection (b) hereof to operate motor vehicles in the area described in subsection (b) hereof, but are prohibited from such operation absent written authorization.
(Ord. 1417. Passed 7-27-99.)
420.99 PENALTY.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 408.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)
   Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of Section 420.03, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each time a person enters the flood emergency area, except when in possession of a written permit as provided in Section 420.03(f).
(Ord. 1417. Passed 7-27-99.)