There is hereby created the position of street superintendent. The street superintendent shall be employed by the city administrator and shall perform the following duties:

(a)   Have the general responsibility for constructing and keeping in repair all streets, alleys, avenues, lanes and other public thoroughfares of the city, including the cleaning of crosswalks, sidewalks and gutters. The street superintendent shall see that all dirt streets are dragged as soon as possible after each rain and shall notify the city administrator when repairs are needed.

(b)   The street superintendent shall cause weeds to be cut or destroyed and snow removed as provided by this code.

(c)   He or she shall report to the city administrator all sidewalks in bad repair and made recommendations for the repair and reconstruction of the same.

(d)   He or she shall have general supervision of the trimming of trees standing in the parking of the city streets and shall remove from the streets all obstructions, including fallen trees, stones, dead animals and other objects.

(e)   The street superintendent shall be in charge of keeping the streets clean and gutters free of obstructions.

(f)   He or she shall perform all other duties assigned to him or her by the city administrator and shall be subject to general advice and control of the city administrator with respect to all specific duties.

(g)   He or she shall have charge and control of all employees within his or her department subject only to direct instructions from the city administrator.

(h)   He or she shall perform all other duties imposed upon him or her by ordinance or law.

(Ord. 443, Sec. 1)

It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to cut pavements or make excavations in the streets, alleys or public grounds of the city for any purpose without first obtaining a permit authorizing such cutting or excavation.

(Code 1967, 13-201)

When any person, company or corporation desires to cut pavements for making an excavation in any street, alley or public ground, he, she or it shall apply to the city clerk in writing stating the location and purpose of such cutting and upon payment of the required fee, the city clerk shall issue a permit for the purpose. The fee shall be in the amount of $75. All fees received hereunder shall be deposited to the general operating fund of the city. No fee shall be required for the making of an excavation in any unimproved street or public way in the city.

(Code 2003)

Any person, company or corporation having received a permit hereunder and shall have cut any pavement or made any excavation in any street or public way, shall restore the street, sidewalk, alley or public way to as good a condition as the same was previous to the cutting or excavation. All dirt, stones, or other rubbish shall be removed immediately upon the completion of the work; the same may be done under the direction and supervision of the street superintendent. Should any such work be done improperly, the street superintendent shall have the right to condemn the work and have it corrected to conform to this article.

(Code 1967, 13-203)

It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any excavation, building material, vehicle, stone, brick, dirt, or other obstruction in or upon any street, alley or other public place of the city during the nighttime unless the same be surrounded by barricades and provided with red lights sufficient in number and so located as to notify and guard vehicles or passers-by of the extent of such excavation or obstruction. Such red lights shall be lighted before dark and shall be left burning during the entire night.

(Code 1967, 13-204)

It shall be the duty of any officer or employee of the city making excavations in or otherwise obstructing any street, alley, sidewalk or public ground in the course of any street improvement or in any way performing any work in such places which may be dangerous to the public, to place suitable warning signs and barricades around and about such excavations or works and in the nighttime to keep and maintain a sufficient number of red lights or lighted torches in such manner as to warn the public of the danger of such excavations or improvement works: provided, that the street superintendent is authorized to direct the placing of such barricades, warning signs or lights, and he or she may, if the public safety requires it during the progress of any such work, close off and barricade the public street or way or any portion thereof in which such improvement may be located.

(Code 1967, 13-205)

It shall be the duty at all times of every person, company or corporation who shall have charge of making an excavation or any obstruction adjacent to or under any sidewalk or street of the city during the course of such work to maintain proper barricades or safety guards and red lights for the protection of the traveling public along the ways adjacent thereto. No such work or excavation shall be allowed to remain overnight without sufficient barricades and without being illuminated with lights or flares during the darkness of the night: provided, that at all times a fence with at least three strings of good six inch boards nailed not less than 18 inches apart to posts firmly set in the ground or otherwise firmly secured, the posts not being more than six feet apart with the tops thereof not less than four and one-half feet from the surface of the sidewalk or street, shall be minimum barricades and the lights shall be sufficient in number and so placed as to show the full extent of the work or obstruction.

(Code 1967, 13-206)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to obstruct any street or alley in the city by placing or depositing therein any building material of any kind or to use such streets or alleys in any manner for the storing of building materials to be used on abutting lots or to obstruct any such street or alley in any way in connection therewith by erecting barricades or storing such material without first securing the approval of the city council. Upon receiving such approval by furnishing such information as may be required, it shall be lawful to encumber the street or alley abutting any lot with building materials to be used in connection with any improvement on the lot as may be necessary. Subject to the direction and approval of the street superintendent, sidewalks may be removed or other public improvements as may be required and the public ways may be used for storing the building materials until the work shall be completed. All such encumbrances in the public ways shall be sufficiently barricaded and lighted to warn and guard the public against danger or injury and the person, firm or corporation carrying on any such work shall be liable to the city for any failure to neglect in guarding the same where the same is carried on. Upon completion of the improvement on the abutting lot, the contractor or person in charge thereof shall clean up the public ways thoroughly within 10 days after the completion of the work.

(Code 1967, 13-207)

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to remove, throw down, run down, destroy or otherwise interfere with any barricade erected by the city, by any contractor executing a municipal control, or any other barricade maintained for any lawful purpose within the streets, alleys or public ways of the city which shall have been placed to guard and protect any work, concrete, paving, sidewalk construction, or other work lawfully carried on therein, or to remove, carry away, injure any warning lights placed on or about the work carried on therein.

(Code 1967, 13-208)

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to walk upon, drive or ride over or across any pavement or any uncompleted grading or sidewalk construction in the course of construction when the same shall have been barricaded and closed to public use.

(Code 1967, 13-209)

All curbing planned or constructed in the city shall be on a line established by the city council, and unless otherwise established shall be parallel with and at a distance of 20 feet from the property line to street side of the curbing on north and south streets and at a distance of 10 feet from the property line to the street side or curbing on east and west avenues.

(Code 1967, 13-210)

No person, company or corporation shall cut any curb and gutter in or along any street in the city without first having obtained a permit to do so from the city inspector and a $10 permit fee shall be charged. When it is desired to cut any curb for the purpose of opening or improving a driveway from the street to any private lot, upon approval being given for the same, the abutting land owner may cut the curb and make the improvement at his or her own expense, but the driveway or other entrance shall be cut down from the level of the sidewalk grade to the level of the gutter, the portion thereof touching the gutter at the curb line at each side of the entrance shall be rounded off by a turn-back constructed in a workmanlike manner sufficiently rounded off as not to endanger the traveling public. In the event that any sidewalk crossing by any such driveway shall not meet the standard specifications for paving, the same shall be reconstructed in accordance with such specifications as directed by the city inspector.

(Code 2003)

It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to obstruct any gutter by means of earth, cinders, wooden bridge, or other material used during the construction of any driveway or for any other purpose, or at any time to place anything in the street or alley, the effect of which shall or might be to interfere with the free flow of water along the drains or gutters, or in any way to change or interfere with the grade or drainage of any street or alley, nor to change the grade of any sidewalk where the same shall have been established.

(Code 1967, 13-212)

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive over or against any curb corner in the city or to drive automobiles, trucks or any other vehicles across or over or upon any curb, sidewalk or parking within the city except at a public crossing or a private driveway or entrance open for the purpose.

(Code 1967, 13-213)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, store, leave or allow to be left any improvements, tools, boxes, booths, merchandise, goods of any kind, trash, cans, crates, corn poppers, peanut roasters, advertising or show cases, automobile jacks or wheelbarrows upon any of the sidewalks or public ways of the city in front of their places of business longer than shall be reasonably necessary for loading or unloading the same: provided, that the city council may grant temporary permission for limited times only as may be deemed advisable for the sidewalks to be used for any such purposes when the same shall not endanger the public safety or convenience.

(Code 1967, 13-214)

It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any property abutting a sidewalk to cause any plant, brick or stone segment thereof to raise or to be raised above the established level of the sidewalk in such a manner as to cause injury to those using the sidewalk or willfully to loosen, remove or otherwise damage or injure any portion or segment or support of a sidewalk or any curb or gutter within the city: provided, that this section shall not apply to persons making repairs or otherwise improving any such sidewalk, gutter, curb or crosswalk or any person temporarily cutting or removing the same with the approval of the city inspector.

(Code 1967, 13-215)

It shall be unlawful for any person to chip, throw or deposit in any manner or to cause to be thrown, chipped or deposited on any street, alley, parking, public cuttings, envelopes, labels, writing paper or any kind of paper whatever, which can be or is likely to be blown along the streets, alleys, avenues or sidewalks.

(Code 1967, 13-216)

It shall be unlawful for any person to place or throw or cause to be placed or thrown in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, or other public way in the city any broken glass, tacks, nails, pieces of iron, bottles or other substances or things that might wound any person or animal or cut or puncture any pneumatic tire when passed over the same.

(Code 1967, 13-217)

Whenever any lot or piece of ground abutting on any sidewalk in the city shall become or remain in such a condition that earth or other substances there from will wash or accumulate upon such sidewalk, it shall be unlawful for the owner of such lot or piece of ground to permit such condition to remain and refuse or neglect to place the same in such a condition as to prevent such washing or accumulation upon any such walk.

(Code 1967, 13-218)

It shall be unlawful for any person to haul over the streets, alleys or public ways of the city, any loose material, sand, dirt, clay, stone, ashes, fodder, garbage, rubbish or refuse of any kind except in a vehicle so constructed as to prevent the escaping, splashing or spilling of the substance or substances therein contained or hauled.

(Code 1967, 13-219)

It shall be unlawful for any person to play at any game of ball or to throw or bat any ball, stone, brick or other hard objects across or upon any street, alley or public grounds of the city, or at or against any person or object therein.

(Code 1967, 13-221)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect, install, operate or maintain any gasoline or oil pumps or compressed air devices within the city in any place where it is necessary that the persons served by any such pump or device, stop their vehicles in the streets while receiving such service or to locate such pumps or devices in or on any public property without permission from the governing body of the city; provided, that each day that such pump or device is kept or maintained in any such place shall be considered a separate offense.

(Code 1967, 13-225)

(a)   No person shall occupy any portion of any street, alley or sidewalk for the purpose of temporarily storing building materials without first obtaining a permit for such temporary use from the governing body.

(b)   No person may use any portion of any sidewalk or street right-of-way for the purpose of displaying or offering for sale wares, goods, merchandise or other items. Nothing in this article, however, shall be construed as prohibiting the city governing body from waiving the prohibition of this subsection in connection with community promotions or community-wide celebrations when such waiver is considered to be in the best interest of the city.

(Code 1986)

It shall be unlawful for any person to place, throw or cause to be placed or thrown in or on any street, alley, sidewalk or other public grounds of the city, any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, wire or other dangerous objects that might wound any person or animal, or cut or puncture any pneumatic tire while passing over the same.

(Code 1986)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit or throw any waste oil, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline or other products of petroleum or any acids into or upon any street or public grounds of the city, or willfully to permit the same to be spilled, dripped or otherwise to come into contact with the surface of any street, alley, or sidewalk within the city.

(Code 1986)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to throw or discharge water into any ditch, street, avenue or alley in the city or to cause any water to stand or form pools or to flow in a stream thereon. This section shall not apply to persons cleaning or flushing such streets, avenues or alleys under the authority of the governing body, nor to members of the fire department.

(Code 1986)