(A) No person, without the consent of the Common Council, shall encroach upon any street, sidewalk, or public ground of the city with any building, porch, balcony, steps, veranda, bay window, show window, lamp, hitching post, fence, awning, wall, railing, signpost, signboard, electric pole, telephone or telegraph pole, or in any way or manner appropriate any part of any street, sidewalk, or other public ground for private use.
(B) No person, without the consent of the Common Council, shall build any cellarway, window way, coal hole, or other opening of any kind or character, in or through any sidewalk or footwalk, or maintain any such cellarway or other excavation in any sidewalk or footway, or use the same in such way that pedestrians may fall therein, or use the same at any time without giving some warning to pedestrians of the dangers during the whole time the same is open.
(Prior Code, § 25-5) Penalty, see § 154.999