San Juan Bautista Municipal Code Art. 6 Miscellaneous

Any permit issued hereunder may be revoked by the City Manager for violation of the provisions of this Chapter or if the permitted activity poses an imminent threat to the public health, safety or welfare.

An applicant or permittee may appeal the decision of the City Manager concerning the denial or revocation of a permit to the City Council. The City Council may deny the appeal or grant the appeal with terms and conditions necessary to protect the public health and safety.

All permittees and other persons maintaining permanent facilities within a street shall keep up-to-date records of the location and description of all such facilities, which records shall be furnished to the City Manager upon request. As used herein, “facilities” shall include, but shall not be limited to, underground pipes, wires and tanks.

All mailboxes shall be placed in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States Post Office Department, but no box shall be so placed within the street as to endanger the life or safety of the traveling public.

It shall be unlawful for any person, without first obtaining a permit under this Chapter, to solicit on a commercial or donation basis, to place or maintain any number, figure, letter, carving, drawing, design, or other marking upon any street; except that markings for the purpose of identifying survey, utility or construction locations shall not be subject to this Chapter. A permit for placing or maintaining numbers, figures, letters, carvings, drawings designs or other markings under this Chapter may be issued only to nonprofit organizations which have their principal and permitted meeting place within the City limits and have been organized and established within the City for a minimum of one (1) year continuously preceding application for a permit.

Any monument of granite, concrete, iron or other lasting material set forth for the purpose of locating or preserving the lines and/or elevation of any street, property subdivision, or a precise survey point or reference point shall not be removed or disturbed or cause to be removed or disturbed or caused to be removed or disturbed without first obtaining permission from the City Manager to do so. Replacement of removed or disturbed monuments will be at the expense of the permittee.

(A) No hedge, shrub, or other planting whatsoever, fence or similar structure shall be planted, erected, or maintained in a street without a permit. No encroachment of any nature will be permitted or maintained which impedes, obstructs, or denies such pedestrian or other lawful travel, or which impairs adequate sight distance for safe pedestrian or vehicular traffic.

(B) Maintenance. The permittee or property owner shall maintain all hedges, shrubs, walls, fences or similar structures erected for landscaping purposes in a neat and orderly condition; if such structures are not so maintained, the City Manager may direct that permittee or property owner to remove the same and restore the street to its former condition, at the expense of the permittee or property owner.

(C) Lawns. Any person otherwise entitled to may maintain a lawn of any grass, or type not prohibited by other law, within the street without a permit. The lawn shall not extend into the roadway or walkway nor into drainage ditches, gutter or other drainage facilities.

No person shall store any item of business inventory, including vehicles, upon any street or sidewalk.

The provisions of this Chapter shall not be construed to impair or prohibit the use of streets for those activities described in this Code, relating to parades and assemblies, or to the exercise of any right or franchise guaranteed by the general laws and constitution.

The City Manager is designated as the enforcement authority for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this Chapter.