Banning Municipal Code Ch. 9.08 Offenses Relating to Property

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any structure which the building official or fire official has posted with a notice containing the wording:

DANGER DO NOT ENTER UNSAFE TO OCCUPY

B. Persons who are public officials acting within the course and scope of their duty and persons entering the structure with the written permission of the building official or fire official are exempt from prosecution under this section.

C. Every person found to be in violation of this section shall on the first such finding of violation be guilty of an infraction and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars; a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars shall be imposed upon conviction for a second violation of the same ordinance in one year; conviction of a third violation of the same ordinance within one year shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, six months in jail or both such fine and imprisonment. Each and every entry shall constitute a separate offense.

(Code 1965, § 1-30.)

No person shall loiter, stand or sit in or upon any public street, highway, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk in the city so as to in any manner hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner annoy or molest persons passing along the same.

(Code 1965, § 21-1.)

No person shall ride or drive or cause to be ridden or driven any horse or other animal or ride, drive or propel any wagon, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile or other vehicle upon any public sidewalk, except at driveways, or leave any such animal or vehicle upon any public sidewalk, or permit any animal or vehicle to stand thereon, or permit any animal or vehicle to stand upon any public street, lane or alley in the city in such a manner as to obstruct the free use of such street.

(Code 1965, § 21-2.)

No person shall run or allow or permit to run over, upon or across any public sidewalk any irrigation water or waste water. This section shall not apply, however, to waste water from the sprinkling of lawns or the watering of ornamental shrubs or trees.

(Code 1965, § 21-3.)

No person shall run or allow or permit to run upon, across or over any public street or alley any irrigation water or waste water, except through the culverts or gutters of such streets.

(Code 1965, § 21-4.)

No person shall obstruct or allow or permit the obstruction of any of the gutters or culverts of the city by depositing therein any rubbish or debris.

(Code 1965, § 21-5.)

No person shall erect, construct or maintain over any street or sidewalk or any portion thereof in the city any awning or projection from a building, any metal or wooden part of which is less than seven feet, or other part of which is less than six feet six inches, vertically, from the surface of the portion of such street or sidewalk over which the same or any part thereof is located. This section shall not apply, however, to fixtures which are attached to buildings and which do not extend over eight inches horizontally from such building.

(Code 1965, § 21-6.)