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ORDINANCE NO. 3.05

AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO OBSTRUCTIONS ON THE PUBLIC STREETS

THE CITY OF CRYSTAL FALLS ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect upon or string across any sidewalk, street or public highway, within the City of Crystal Falls, any bill board, poster, sign, decoration, advertisement or thing of any kind or character whatsoever; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit the owner or tenant of any building immediately adjacent to any sidewalk within said City from erecting awnings, electric or other signs or advertisements calculated to advertise any legitimate business carried on by said owner or tenant aforesaid, and provided, further, that such awnings, electric signs or advertisements, shall be constructed that no part thereof shall be lower than seven feet above the surface of such sidewalks.

SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any sidewalk or street in said City or to leave or store for a longer period than fifteen minutes therein or thereon any goods, wares, merchandise r any boxes, crate, packing case, barrel, cask, keg or any other article or thing whatsoever. Provided, however, that vehicles in active use shall not be subject to the provisions hereof.

SECTION 3. The Council, upon application to it therefor, may from time to time under such conditions as it shall by resolution prescribe, permit any person or persons to temporarily encroach upon any street or walk for the purpose of carrying on building operations, or for any other purpose, when in its judgement public convenience and safety will not suffer thereby.

SECTION 4.

Any person violating this ordinance shall be deemed to have committed a civil infraction, subject to the payment of civil fines of $50.00 plus costs, for the first violation.

Any repeat offense shall be subject to increased fines, as follows:

First repeated offense shall be no less than $150.00 plus costs.

A fine for any second repeated offense or any subsequent repeated offense shall be no less than $250.00 plus costs.

Original adoption date: 10/23/18

Amended: 11/2/36

Section 4 Amendment: 10/14/96 (as written above)