Placing or keeping or permitting to be placed or kept on the sidewalks or pavements of the main business streets in the city of any goods, wares or merchandise, boxes, bootblack stands, vehicles, lumber, bricks, dirt, sand, firewood, or any other article or thing is a type of nuisance. It is unlawful for any person to loiter, stand or sit in or upon any public highway, alley, sidewalk, or crosswalk so as to in any manner hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner accost or molest persons passing along the same. When, however, in the construction, alteration, or repair of any building, it becomes necessary to temporarily obstruct a portion of the sidewalk or pavement, the same may be done upon permission of the Chief of Police being first had and obtained. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the unloading of goods, wares, and merchandise on any such sidewalk where the same is immediately removed.
(1995 Code, § 7.28.090) (Ord. 02-1909, passed - - 2002; Ord. 2024-02, passed 3-19-2024)