It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to build or construct any step or steps or other obstruction, whether temporary or permanent, on any sidewalks or other public ways in the city, or obstruct the same longer than is necessary for loading or unloading purposes; Provided, That the City Council may authorize the granting of temporary permits in connection with a building or moving permit for limited times only to the owner of property abutting on any sidewalk to use or encumber such sidewalk or public ways of the city during the construction of any building or improvement thereon; Provided further, That no such permit shall be issued for such purpose until plans for warning and safeguarding the public during such use of sidewalks shall have been submitted by the owner or his contractor and approved by the City Council.

(Ord. 751; Code 2016)

It shall be the duty of every person or persons having charge of any construction or excavation adjacent to or under any sidewalk or street, during the progress of such work to guard the work securely by a wooden fence or wall attached to posts firmly set in the ground or otherwise securely fixed in place during such time. It shall further be the duty of all persons from one-half (1/2) hour after sunset to one-half (l/2) hour before sunrise to illuminate such excavation or work. with red lights or flares sufficient in number and so placed as to show the full extent thereof.

(K.S.A. 15 425; Code 2016)

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, except those having authority from the city or any officer thereof, to throw down, interfere with or remove any barriers, barricades or lights placed in any street to guard and warn the traveling public of any construction work thereon or adjacent thereto.

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 cans, glass, tacks, nails, bottles, wire or. other dangerous objects while passing over the same.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place, throw or deposit or cause to be placed, deposited or left any dirt, filth, sweepings, excrement, compost, papers, boxes, ashes, lumber, coal, wood, kindling, grass, weeds, leaves, slops or litter of any kind in or on any streets, alleys, parks or public ways of the city.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to store or deposit, or to accumulate or abandon any old iron, machinery, vehicles of any kind, vehicle bodies or parts thereof or any junk of any kind in or upon any sidewalk, street, parking, alley or public grounds within the city.

Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place or construct any gasoline service pump or device, or any air compression device in the parking of any street, or adjacent thereto, so that it would be necessary to receive service or to use any portion of the street while any vehicle is parked or standing on a sidewalk, street or alley of the city.

It shall be unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle upon any public sidewalk within the city so as to interfere with any pedestrian thereon.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to drive or move any tractor with metal lugs, or any vehicle or object having metal wheels or runners on any paved street or alley in the city, unless the paving shall be protected by planks sufficient to prevent injury from such lugs or damage resulting from such vehicle or object.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or be imprisoned not to exceed thirty (30) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned.