Salinas Municipal Code § 30-11 Overgrown trees and shrubs—Prohibited

No person shall place or leave, or cause to be placed or left, on any part of any street, sidewalk or alley, any lumber, vehicles, machinery, crates, cases, boxes, bales, barrels, or other article or thing likely to obstruct the free passage or interfere with the use of such street, sidewalk or alley; and no person shall permit any such article or thing to remain on any sidewalk in front of any premises owned, occupied or controlled by himself; provided, that this section shall not apply to goods, wares and merchandise in actual course of receipt at or removal from a place of business, when the same is moved with reasonable diligence, and at least one-half of the sidewalk is, at all times, left unobstructed; or to material for use in the construction or repair of a building placed in the street under a permit from the street superintendent; or to poles, posts, trees, water troughs or other things placed on streets or sidewalks by, or with the permission of, the proper officers of the city.

(Ord. No. 22 (NCS), § 3.)

Any obstruction in or to any sidewalk, street, alley, lane, court, park, or other public place as specified in Section 30-1 is a public nuisance pursuant to Section 1-8.1(a) and may be removed immediately by the city.

(Ord. No. 2278 (NCS), § 4.)

* Authority for prohibition and removal of obstructions to public streets and property is Government Code section 38775.

The entire expense of the removal of the nuisance of the city as prescribed by Section 30-1.1, including attorneys fees and court costs, shall be borne by the person or entity causing such obstruction.

(Ord. No. 2278 (NCS), § 4.)

No person shall place any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind, for exhibition, display, advertisement or sale, on any part of any sidewalk, and no person shall permit any such goods, wares or merchandise to remain on the sidewalk in front of any lot or premises which he owns, occupies or controls, unless he shall first have obtained a written permit from the city manager stating the terms and conditions under which the display and sale of merchandise may be permitted.

The display or sale of any such merchandise shall be limited to no more than two occasions of a community-wide or regional nature in any one calendar year and to no more than three consecutive days on any one occasion on particular dates to be designated by the city manager. Permits shall be issued only to the owners of regularly established retail mercantile stores, and shall require that at least one-half the total sidewalk width, but never less than a width of four feet, be kept open and unobstructed at all times for the free passage of pedestrians.

All applicants for permits under this section shall furnish a certificate of insurance indemnifying and holding harmless the city from any loss, claims or demands whatsoever which might arise from or be caused by such display or sale of goods and merchandise.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize or permit any outdoor sale or display of food or food products prohibited by existing laws or regulations or those which may hereafter be adopted.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 4; Ord. No. 1392 (NCS), § 1.)

No person shall ride, drive or lead any horse, mare, mule, cow, ox or similar animal on or along any sidewalk in the city; nor shall any such animal be hitched or tied so as to cause it to stand on any such sidewalk.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 9; Ord. No. 40 (NS), § 1.)

No person shall spit on any sidewalk.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 11.)

* For state law as to spitting on streets and sidewalks, see Pen. C., § 372a.

No person shall injure, destroy or remove any monument placed or erected by the city engineer. If it shall become necessary for any person, in pursuit of a lawful purpose, to have any such monument removed, notice of such necessity shall be given to the city engineer, who shall forthwith proceed, at the cost of the person requiring such removal, to remove such monument and replace the same in its original position as soon as the purpose for which the removal has been made is accomplished.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 14.)

No engineer, conductor, brakeman, switchman, or other person having charge of any locomotive engine, train of cars or car shall allow the same to stand on or across any street.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 17.)

No engineer or other person having charge or control of any locomotive engine shall cause or permit such engine to attain or travel at a greater rate of speed than twenty-five miles an hour at any point east of the westerly line of Main Street in the city.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 18; Ord. No. 38 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 309 (NCS), § 1.)

Any person by whom, or under whose immediate direction, any part of a street, sidewalk, alley or public place in the city is rendered dangerous, shall erect and, while the dangerous condition continues, maintain a good and substantial barrier about such place, and shall cause lights to be maintained on such barrier every night, from sunset to sunrise, in such positions as to be seen by persons approaching from any direction.

(Ord. No. 22 (NS), § 25.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit trees or other growths on their property adjoining sidewalks or alleys to overgrow such alleys or sidewalks so as to interfere with the full and free use thereof.

(Ord. No. 24 (NCS), § 1.)

* As to trees and shrubs, see Ch. 35 of this Code.

Any such interference by overhanging growth with the full and free use of alleys and sidewalks is declared to be a nuisance and upon the failure of the owner to remove the same after ten days' notice given, it shall be removed by the superintendent of streets and the costs thereof charged to the owner, and if not paid by the owner shall be collected from him on suit by the city attorney under the direction of the council.

(Ord. No. 24 (NCS), § 2.)