Article I — Generally — Santa Clara Municipal Code

§ 12.30.010. Obstructing or littering, defacing or damaging, etc., prohibited.¶

(a) No person shall place (or cause to be placed) any obstruction on any sidewalk within the city so as to impede the travel thereon or to obstruct the same in any way, either partially or wholly, by the placing of merchandise on display, piling boxes, etc., or who shall damage or deface the sidewalks by drawing, symbols, lettering or caricatures of any kind.
(b) This section shall not be construed to mean any goods, wares or merchandise when occupying the sidewalk in actual delivery or removal of such goods, wares or merchandise, provided the same be moved within twenty-four (24) hours.
(Ord. 114; Ord. 361; Formerly § 25-40)

§ 12.30.020. Width regulations.¶

All streets in the City that are seventy (70) feet or over in width shall have a sidewalk space of eleven and one-half (11-1/2) feet, measured from the outside edge of the curb to the property line except in blocks where concrete curbs have been installed prior to the enactment of this section. (Ord. 391; Formerly § 25-42)

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