(a) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a sidewalk or playground any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage property of another or injure any person or animal traveling along or upon such sidewalk or playground.
(b) No person shall walk on, or allow any animal upon, or injure or deface in any way, any soft or newly laid sidewalk pavement.
(c) No person shall place, deposit or maintain any merchandise, goods, material or equipment upon any sidewalk so as to obstruct pedestrian traffic thereon except for such reasonable time as may be actually necessary for the delivery or pickup of such articles. In no case shall the obstruction remain on such sidewalk for more than one hour.
(d) No person shall unload upon, or transport any heavy merchandise, goods, material or equipment over or across any sidewalk or curb without first placing some sufficient protection over the pavement to protect against damage or injury.
(e) No person shall allow any cellar or trap door, coal chute or elevator or lift opening in any sidewalk to remain open without providing suitable safeguards to protect and warn pedestrian traffic of the dangerous conditions.
(f) No person or persons, acting either individually or in concert, shall congregate or assemble unlawfully or without having obtained a proper permit so to do, on or in any public sidewalk or other public right-of-way, in a manner so as to impede others of the general public from the use thereof, or to prevent the ingress or egress of the general public to or from any public or private property or to or from any public sidewalk or public right-of-way, and have failed to move on or to remove himself therefrom when lawfully ordered so to do by authorized law enforcement.
(g) No person shall carry a sign, placard or banner on a public sidewalk in excess of 12 square feet per face and not to exceed four feet in width, and no such sign, placard or banner shall be on a pole, staff or other structure more than eight feet high or be on more than one pole, staff or structure designed to be carried by more than one person at a time.
(h) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 2004-17. Passed 4-5-04.)