131. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PROPERTY
CHAPTER 131: OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PROPERTY
Section
General Provisions
131.01 Public streets
131.02 Hitching and picketing animals
131.03 Posting handbills
131.04 Defacing public property
131.05 Willful destruction of public park and public cemetery property
131.06 Withholding city property
131.07 Interference with public sewers and culverts
131.08 Restriction of awning
Construction and Excavation
131.20 Excavations to be guarded
131.21 Removing barricades
131.22 Injuring uncompleted construction
131.23 Blasting precautions
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 131.01 PUBLIC STREETS.
(A) Placing objects on public highways.
(1) No person shall place, throw, or cause to be placed or thrown on any street, alley, sidewalk, or other public property, any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, or other substances or things that might wound any person or animal or cut or puncture any pneumatic tire when passing over the same.
(2) No person shall place, throw, or cause to be placed or thrown on any street, alley, sidewalk, or other public property any leaves, grass, branches, limbs, vegetation, dirt, sand, silt, mud, or other similar debris.
(B) Spilling substances in streets. No person shall haul over the streets or alleys of this city any loose material of any kind, except in a vehicle having a tight box so constructed as to prevent the splashing or spilling of any of the substances therein contained upon streets or alleys.
(Prior Code, § 705.3) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.02 HITCHING AND PICKETING ANIMALS.
No person shall hitch any animal to any street light, hydrant, drinking fountain, shrub or shade tree, or picket any animal in any of the streets, alleys, parks, or public grounds of the city.
(Prior Code, § 705.4) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.03 POSTING HANDBILLS.
No person shall put up any handbills, advertisements, posters, show bills, or other signs on any building, pole, or property not his or her own without permission from the owner thereof.
(Prior Code, § 705.5) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.04 DEFACING PUBLIC PROPERTY.
No person shall cut, carve, mark, etch, engrave any character, figure, letter, or name upon any building or other public property owned, occupied, or used by the city, or shall in any manner mar, deface, or injure any trees, shrub, plant, vines, or any other public property in, on, or around the grounds upon which the building is situated, nor shall any person willfully or maliciously displace, remove, injure, or destroy any other public property or any part thereof.
(Prior Code, § 705.6) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.05 WILLFUL DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PARK AND PUBLIC CEMETERY PROPERTY.
No person shall willfully and without authority cut, pluck, or otherwise injure any flowers, shrubs, or trees growing in or around any public park, public cemetery, or other public grounds of the city, or shall willfully injure or destroy any stand, bench, or other property situated on the park, cemetery, or ground.
(Prior Code, § 705.6) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.06 WITHHOLDING CITY PROPERTY.
No person shall take possession of any property, real or personal, belonging to the city, or to the possession of which the city shall be entitled, or shall commit any trespass thereon, or shall unlawfully withhold the property from the city, and the unlawful withholding of the property after demand therefor has been made under the direction of the City Council, shall be deemed a new and separate offense for every day the possession is withheld after the demand.
(Prior Code, § 705.6) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.07 INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC SEWERS AND CULVERTS.
No person shall willfully injure or destroy, or attempt to injure or destroy, any public sewer or culvert, or shall molest any sewer or culvert or any part of the sewer or culvert, by removing the cover of any flash tank, grate, or other part of the public sewer system or culvert, without authority to do so.
(Prior Code, § 705.7) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.08 RESTRICTION OF AWNING.
No person shall construct or install, or cause to be constructed or installed, any awning which is supported in whole or in part by posts or other supports set into the public right-of-way.
(Prior Code, § 705.8) Penalty, see § 10.99
CONSTRUCTION AND EXCAVATION
§ 131.20 EXCAVATIONS TO BE GUARDED.
Every person who shall have charge of the construction of any excavation or obstruction adjacent to or under any sidewalk or street shall during the progress of the work cause the excavation to be securely guarded by a fence with at least two strings of good six-inch boards nailed not less than 18 inches apart to posts securely fixed in place; the posts shall be not more than six feet apart and the top of the highest post shall not be less than four and one‑half feet from the surface of the sidewalk or street and from one‑half hour after sunset to one‑half hour before sunrise shall illuminate the excavation or obstruction with lights sufficient in number and so placed as to show the full extent thereof.
(Prior Code, § 705.2)
§ 131.21 REMOVING BARRICADES.
No person shall remove, throw down, run over, or interfere with any barricade or barricades lawfully directed, placed to guard, and protect any grading, paving, sidewalk construction, or other work.
(Prior Code, § 705.2) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.22 INJURING UNCOMPLETED CONSTRUCTION.
No person shall walk upon, drive, or ride over or cross any pavement in the course of construction before the same has been opened for public travel, or over or across any uncompleted grading, or sidewalk construction which has not been opened for travel.
(Prior Code, § 705.2) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 131.23 BLASTING PRECAUTIONS.
No person shall blast or cause to be blasted within 300 feet of any building of this city, rocks or other material, without having the same covered by good sound timber or sheet metal of sufficient weight, length, and thickness and so placed as effectively to prevent fragments of rock or other material blasted, from ascending into the air, or shall fail to notify persons approaching the scene of any blasting that blasting is being done.
(Prior Code, § 705.2) Penalty, see § 10.99