No person within the limits of the City shall cause any street, sidewalk or crosswalk therein to become crowded, packed or filled with people so as to prevent or interfere with the free use of the same by the public, or erect or maintain any building or structure in such manner as to be unsafe, injurious or annoying to the public, or allow any sidewalk, curbstone, gutter, awning or awning post to be placed or remain in a dangerous condition, or place or suffer to remain on any sidewalk or street any obstruction injurious to the public use of the same. Any house, barn, shed, building or obstruction of any kind standing in whole or in part on any street, avenue or alley in the City is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
No person within the City shall erect, maintain or suffer to remain on any public sidewalk or on any portion of the area between the lot line and the curb line of any street, any stand, wagon, merchandise or machinery, or permit to remain any other obstruction that is injurious or inconvenient to or inconsistent with the public use of the same. A reasonable time shall be allowed to remove from sidewalks, goods, wares and merchandise being received and shipped, or placed there during remodeling of places of business abutting sidewalks, or placed there on account of fire, storm or other emergency. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit Council or the City Manager from granting permits, for agreed compensation to the City and upon such other conditions as are recited in the permits, to build, construct or maintain vaults, cellars or areaways beneath the sidewalks included within the sidewalk lines on any street, or from granting easements for construction of driveways over sidewalk spaces for reasonable means of ingress to or egress from private residences or places of business.
(Ord. 1147. Passed 9-12-89.)