Richmond Municipal Code Ch. 14.64 Miscellaneous Use of Streets, Sidewalks, Etc

It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar device to go upon any roadway or sidewalk within the central traffic district.

It shall be unlawful for children or others to play games of any kind in or upon any portion of any street within the City of Richmond.

No excavation or disturbance of a street, parkway, sidewalk shall be left unprotected or unguarded. Excavations or disturbances of the aforementioned areas shall be protected by barriers, signs or lanterns of type and number as approved by the Director of Public Works or Chief of Police.

On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful to install, set out or maintain, or to allow the installation, setting out or maintenance of any sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other obstruction to the view, higher than three feet six inches above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection within that triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on property lines twenty-five feet from the point of their intersection, or in the case of rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining points on said tangent twenty-five feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the corner.

The foregoing provision shall not apply to permanent buildings; public utility poles, trees trimmed (to the trunk) to a line at least eight feet above the level of the intersection; saplings, or plant species of open growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge, which are so planted and trimmed as to leave at all seasons a clear and unobstructed cross-view; supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings existing on the date this ordinance becomes effective; official warning signs or signals; to places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross-visibility at the intersection; or to signs mounted ten feet or more above the ground and whose supports do not constitute an obstruction as defined in Section 14.64.050.

(a) Officer. The enforcement of Sections 14.64.050 and 14.64.060 shall be under the direction of the Director of Public Works. The Director of Public Works shall investigate violations of said sections and notify the Park Superintendent of the City of Richmond hereafter referred to as the "Superintendent." Upon such notification the Superintendent shall perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of said sections as may be required.

(b) Remedies. Any obstruction maintained in violation of Section 14.64.050 shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within twenty days after posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance signed by the Superintendent, such representatives of the Superintendent as he may so authorize may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruction. In such event, the cost to the City of the abatement of the nuisance shall be a lien upon the premises, provided a claim therefor be filed within the time and in the manner as prescribed in Chapter II, Title IV, Part III of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State. The cost of such abatement shall, in addition, be a personal obligation against the owner of the premises upon which the nuisance was maintained, recoverable by the City in an action before any court of competent jurisdiction.

No obstruction to cross-visibility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of this chapter because of its being in existence at the time of the adoption hereof, unless expressly exempted by the terms of this chapter.

(Source: Ordinance No. 1753)