Riverside Municipal Code Ch. 13.04 Use Regulations

It is unlawful for any person to camp, loiter, stand, or sit in or upon any public street, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk 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.

(Ord. 7352 § 4, 2016; Ord. 6393 § 34, 1997; prior code § 28.1)

It is unlawful for any person to occupy any portion of any street for the purpose of selling merchandise or commodities of any kind, except by sale from a vehicle or pushcart having the right to sell under a provision of this Code or other ordinance of the City; but it is unlawful to make any sale on any street by public outcry.

(Ord. 5618 § 3, 1988; prior code § 28.2)

It is unlawful for any person to propel any traction engine or other engine or machine of a similar nature, or any harrow or cultivator or other sharp instrument over or along any graded or improved street, unless the same is taken over, across or along such street in a manner so as not to tear or mar the surface thereof, by having its wheels and other parts protected against injury to such street. This shall not be construed to interfere with the taking across or over and along such streets light orchard cultivators, plows and similar implements; provided, that they are transported on light drags in a manner so as not to cut into or make ruts in such streets.

(Prior code § 28.3)

It is unlawful for any person to allow a truck, automobile, trailer, wagon or other vehicle to drag over or along any street, any block or other article usually used as a braking block for the rear wheels of trailers, wagons, or to drag any pipe, lumber, trees or other articles across, over or along such street; but nothing in this section or in Section 13.04.030 shall be construed to prohibit the City from using any vehicle, machine, implement or drag in the improvement or repair of any street.

(Ord. 7362 § 5, 2017; Prior code § 28.4)

It is unlawful for any person to play any game of ball or football, or to throw, cast, shoot or discharge any stone, pellet, bullet, arrow or any other missile in, over, across, along or upon any street or in or upon any public park in the City, unless such place has been set aside for such games.

(Prior code § 28.5)

It is unlawful for any person to light a fire, or to burn or authorize or permit to be burned any paper, wood or other material, or to set fire to or burn any rubbish, brush or other material over or upon any street, right-of-way, sidewalk, parking space, parking lot, parking garage, oiled asphalt, or cement sidewalk or over or upon any curb, improved gutter, improved street, or upon any parking space which is planted to street trees, ornamental shrubs or lawn.

(Ord. 7362 § 5, 2017; Prior code § 28.6)

It is unlawful to move any house, building, parts of buildings, freight or goods or material of any kind across, over or along any street by means of a traction engine or any similar engine or machinery upon streets which have been paved with asphaltum or other material, or which have been macadamized, graded, graveled or oiled, unless the wheels and other parts of such engine or machinery are protected in the manner set forth in Section 13.04.030.

(Prior code § 28.7)

It is unlawful for any person to pour, spill or permit to drip upon any improved street in the City, any oil, petroleum, kerosene, benzine or other similar oil or oily substance, or liquid; except that, this shall not apply to the small dripping of lubricating oil from automobiles; provided, that any automobile dripping oil in other than the ordinary small quantities shall, on notice to the owner or operator thereof, be at once repaired against any excess dripping of such lubricating oil.

(Prior code § 28.8)

All oil delivery wagons or tanks shall have securely fastened under taps or faucets thereto attached, an absolutely oil or water tight, zinc lined box or tray; and in filling any measure of other vessel from such taps or faucets, such measure or other vessel must be held so that any drip or overflow shall fall into such box or tray, and in carrying or removing such vessel or measure over or across any asphalt or bituminous pavement, no drip or overflow from such measure or vessel shall be permitted to fall upon such pavement. No measure or other receptacle or vessel for holding oil shall be placed upon any asphalt or bituminous pavement.

(Prior code § 28.9)

It is unlawful for any person to transport material of any kind over, along or across any street in the City, on automobile trucks, automobiles, wagons, cars or vehicles of any kind, or by any method, unless the same is so transported or carried that no portion of any materials shall fall or be deposited upon the public streets, and the gears of all wagons or vehicles of any kind used to haul or transport earth or other material along the streets shall be cleaned before leaving the loading place, and also before leaving the dumping place, and especially shall all wagons hauling earth, sand, rock, straw, brush, hay, rubbish, garbage, swill, cesspool or privy contents, or other material, manure, or commercial fertilizer, be so constructed that such materials will not waste through and be deposited upon the streets, in whole or in part; but this shall not apply to depositing material on the streets under lawful permits for building or improvement purposes. It is unlawful for any person to transport or haul over or through the streets of the City any manure, fertilizer, garbage, rubbish, waste matter or other substances from which offensive odors may arise and which are not encased in containers, without fully covering such substances being so hauled or transported with a tarpaulin or canvas.

(Prior code § 28.10)

In case material is deposited by accident or other means upon any street, contrary to Section 13.04.100 the same shall be immediately cleaned from such street and removed by the person in charge of such wagon, car or vehicle.

(Prior code § 28.11)

It is unlawful for any person using water for irrigation, domestic or other use or purpose, to run any waste water or allow the same to run onto or upon any public street in the City, but each person must care for and dispose of his own waste water.

(Prior code § 28.12)

It is unlawful for any person to tie any animal to any ornamental lighting post, or to themselves lean, or lean or stand any bicycle, motorcycle, freight, goods, or any other material against any ornamental lighting post or for one foot on either side thereof, or within 25 feet of any fire hydrant, or to place or pile boxes, freight, or other articles upon the sidewalk for delivery to stores or otherwise, within one foot of such ornamental lighting posts, or to a height or in a manner calculated to injure same, and all such shall be promptly attended to and removed to the interior of the stores or to other private property.

(Prior code § 28.13)

Any person owning or operating canals and irrigation ditches running over, through or across the City are required to construct, maintain and keep in good repair at all times, good and sufficient bridges over all such canals and ditches, wherever they cross the line of any street. All such bridges are to be laid as nearly as possible on the same grade as the street, and they shall be the full width of the street, whenever the Mayor and Common Council shall, by resolution, require such width. All such bridges shall have substantial and neat guards on each side for the safety of travel.

(Prior code § 28.15)

All persons owning or operating canals and irrigating ditches in the City, and running over, across or through any street, are required to fence the same on one or both sides with a substantial fence, whenever the Mayor and City Council shall, by resolution, state that a public necessity exists therefor, for the preservation of life and property, and that the condition sought to be rectified is dangerous.

(Prior code § 28.16)