CHAPTER VI.

Section 600 - Streets, Sidewalks and Alleys

Section 600:00. Definitions.

Subd. 1. Roadway. The roadway is that portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.

Subd. 2. Sidewalk. The sidewalk is that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.

Subd. 3. Boulevard. Boulevard is that portion of a street normally lying between the sidewalk and the curb, if there be a curb, and, if there be no curb, then the nearest lateral line of a roadway.

Subd. 4. Street. A street is the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, alley, boulevard, land, place, or however designated, which has been dedicated for pedestrian or vehicular travel.

Subd. 5. Vehicle. A vehicle is a device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

Section 600:05. Unlawful Acts. It will be unlawful for any person to do, perform, or cause to be performed any of the following acts or cause any of the following conditions:

Subd. 1. To drive, lead or leave any animal other than a dog, cat or other house animal; to drive or leave any vehicle or machinery; to throw or leave any junk material or any objects likely to cause injury or damage to persons or property, upon any boulevard;

Subd. 2. Molesting Unfinished Street Improvements. To walk upon, drive on, ride over or across or otherwise molest any pavement, sidewalk, or other work improvement in any street that is in the course of construction and before the same is open for public travel;

Subd. 3. Bill Posting. To place or cause to be placed any bills, advertisements, posters, signs, notices or advertising matter of any kind on any tree, telephone, or light pole, post or fixture in the streets or public ways of the City, or to place or post any such bills, advertisements, or posters on any building, fence, or property adjacent to such streets or public places, without the consent of the owner or person in control of such buildings or property; provided that such bills or advertisements may be removed by any officer of the City or the owner of such property without notice to the person posting or placing such bills or advertisements.

Subd. 4. Barb Wire Fences; Iron Points. To place or maintain any barbed wire or other sharp metal points on any railing, fence, pole or posts in any street, alley, or sidewalk in the City; provided that each day's refusal or neglect to remove any such wire or metal points after written notice will constitute a separate offense and be punishable as a violation of this ordinance;

Subd. 5. Burning in Street. To accumulate or burn leaves, trash, or other combustibles in or upon any street in the City;

Subd. 6. Petroleum Products in Streets. To deposit or throw any waste, oil, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline or other petroleum products or acids into or upon any street of the City, or willfully permit the same to be spilled, dripped, or otherwise to come into contact with the surface of any street of the City;

Subd. 7. Hauling Building Materials. To haul or transport any sand, dirt, rock, or other like building materials in any vehicle so loaded that such materials may escape or spill onto the streets of the City;

Subd. 8. Injury to Street Property or Fixtures. To willfully cut, break, or remove, or in any manner to displace any curbing, guttering, street crossing marking, or interfere or change the grade or drainage thereof or to tear down or remove any street, parking or informational sign or fixture maintained by lawful authority, or to deface or remove any grade mark, stake, or other grade point or location in the City;

Subd. 9. Placing Snow and Ice Upon Streets. To place, push, haul, or plow any snow or ice from any private property upon any street in the City;

Subd. 10. Advertising, Washing, Greasing, Etc. To park upon any street any vehicle displayed for the primary purpose of sale, or to wash, grease, or repair such vehicle, except for making temporary repairs necessitated by an emergency;

Subd. 11. Advertising, Primary Purpose. To operate or to park on any street any vehicle for the primary purpose of displaying advertising;

Subd. 12. Intoxicating Beverages. No persons on a street, sidewalk, or municipal parking area will consume or dispense any alcoholic beverage including 3.2 beer or possess open containers of any alcoholic beverage including 3.2 beer. The area of a seasonal sidewalk cafe licensed under the provisions of Section 810:05, Subd. 8 is exempt from the application of this Subd. 15.

Section 600:15. Illegal Obstructions. No person will encumber or obstruct any sidewalk, lane, alley, street, public ground, or other public place by any means.

Section 600:25. Remove Earth, etc. from City Streets. No person will dig, remove carry away or cause the same to be done, any stone, earth, sand or gravel from any street, lane, alley or public ground within the City of St. Cloud.

Section 600:30. Parking Limitations for Repairs. No person will allow a vehicle, for the purpose of repairs, to remain or stand in any street, lane, or alley for more than three hours.

Section 600:35. Ditching in Streets. No person will make any drain ditch or bridge across any street, lane, alley or public ground in said City.

Section 600:40. Building on Public Grounds. No person will build or place any building or other structure in whole or in part upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public grounds within the City except as specifically allowed herein.

(a) When any person is the owner of real property on both sides of an alley in the City upon which there are buildings, the person may be permitted to connect the buildings by an underground passage or an overhead structure under or across said alley.

(b) Installation of bus shelters by and for the St. Cloud Metropolitan Transit Commission on the public right of ways may be permitted.

(c) No such permit, will be granted except upon application in writing to the Council describing the property affected and accompanied with plans and specifications for the structure which the applicant proposes to construct. If such plans and specifications provide for a structure which will not interfere with the use of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public ground by the public and which will fully protect the public when using said public grounds against accident or injury, a permit to build said structure may be granted by the Council. All permits granted will be upon the express conditions that the structure will not be used until it is approved and accepted in writing by the City Engineer and upon the further express conditions that the structure will be maintained at all times so as to fully protect the public when using the public grounds against accident or injury. In the case of accident or injury to any user of the public grounds, the applicant will indemnify and hold harmless the City in all respects.

Section 600:45. Obstructions on Sidewalks.

Subd. 1. No person will at any time place or cause to be placed any goods, wares, or merchandise so the same will lie or project over or upon any sidewalk within said City.

Subd. 2. No person will pile, deposit or place or cause to be or permit to be deposited, piled, or placed any rubbish, wood, coal, dirt, impediment, or obstruction of any kind upon or over any sidewalk or crossing or otherwise occupy or obstruct any sidewalk or crossing.

Subd. 3. No person or persons receiving or delivering goods, wares or merchandise will place or keep upon or cause or permit to be placed or kept upon any sidewalk any of the merchandise or goods being received or delivered, without leaving a passageway clear upon such sidewalk of at least four feet in width for the use of foot passengers and none of such goods, or merchandise or the containers in which they were received will in any event remain upon the sidewalk more than four hours; and none of the same will remain thereon during any of the time between six o'clock in the afternoon of any day and seven o'clock in the morning of the following day.

Subd. 4. No person will sell or attempt to sell or cry for sale at public auction any goods or property whatever to any person or persons upon the sidewalk or streets within said City so as to collect a crowd upon the sidewalks or streets whereby the free passage to any person is prevented or hindered.

Subd.5. Obstructing Sidewalk with Personal Property. To place or store or to allow to be placed or stored on any sidewalk of the City any implements, tools, merchandise, goods, crates, vending machines, newspaper racks, showcases, or other articles obstructing such sidewalks any longer than is reasonably necessary for the loading or unloading of the same by the occupants of the buildings adjacent thereto or their employees or agents. Any obstruction may be summarily removed by any officer of the City without notice;

Section 600:60. Filling Dams, Ditches or Sewers. No person will fill up, dam, or obstruct any ditch, drain, or sewer within the City of St. Cloud and will not in any manner obstruct or hinder the full course of water.

Section 600:65. Injury to Streets and Appurtenances Thereto. No person will in any manner willfully injure or deface any sidewalk, curb, gutter, pavement, crosswalk, street surface, street sign, street lamp, street lamp hose or house number in the City, or any pole or post erected or being in any of the streets of the City pursuant to any of the ordinances of the City, or any of the poles, wires or boxes or apparatus of the fire alarm system of the City, or any property of any kind whatsoever belonging to the City.