Shafter Municipal Code Ch. 9.20 Offenses Against Property

Any person by whom, or under whose immediate direction, or by whose immediate authority, as principal or as contractor or as employer, any portion of a public street or sidewalk may be made dangerous, is guilty of a misdemeanor, unless he shall erect and so long as the danger may continue, maintain around the portion of the street, highway or sidewalks so made dangerous a good and substantial barrier and shall cause to be maintained, during every night from sunset to daylight, lighted lanterns at the points of danger sufficient to give fair warning from every point of approach.

(Prior code § 9-1-8)

A. Any person who shall run or stretch or maintain, through, along or across any street or alley, any wire, cable, rope or cord, or poles or otherwise at less height than twenty-five feet without the permission of the council, is guilty of a misdemeanor; and any such wire stretched less than twenty-five feet from the ground is declared a nuisance.

B. It shall be the duty of the chief of police to give reasonable notice to any person having or maintaining or stretching wires, cables, ropes or cord, or having caused the same to be stretched in any street or public place, contrary to the provisions of this section, to remove the same; and in case such removal be not so made, the chief of police may remove such wire or other obstruction, or prosecute any person wilfully maintaining the same, or may both remove and prosecute.

(Prior code § 9-1-23)

Any person who shall place or cause to be placed upon any public way, street or sidewalk; and any person owning or occupying or having control of any premises who shall suffer to remain in front thereof, upon the sidewalk, or the half of the street or way next to such premises, anything which shall obstruct the free passage of such street or sidewalk for more than one hour at a time, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not apply to:

A. Anyone who has applied to and received approval by the city to permit usage of said sidewalk or street in a manner consistent with the provisions of Chapter 5.50 of Title 5 of the Shafter Municipal Code;

B. Lamp posts or hydrants erected by permission of the city council; ornamental trees planted along the outer line of the sidewalk and within the curb including barriers for protection of the same;

C. Materials being used in the construction or repair of any building(s), if such materials shall not occupy more than one-third of the whole width of the street in front of such building(s); provided, that in case materials are being used in the construction or repair of any building(s), a protective walkway, not less than forty-four inches wide, shall be built around or over any such materials left on the street or sidewalk by builders, their employees, or agent. This protective walkway shall be free from any obstructions and shall be deemed safe for foot travel by the chief of police;

D. Anyone unloading or loading automobiles, tractors, farm equipment or similar equipment.

(Ord. 464 § 2, 1996: prior code § 9-1-50)

It is unlawful for any person to play ball or throw any ball to and fro upon any public thoroughfare in the city.

(Prior code § 9-1-42)

It is unlawful for any person to allow any water to flow into or upon any public thoroughfare.

(Prior code § 9-1-56)

Any person who shall tear down, mutilate, remove, deface or destroy any notice, handbill or sign of any business or performance of any kind, or any ornamental sign, awning posts, or any news or bulletin board, or who shall use any such boards for posting any notice, device or other matter without the consent of the owner, or who shall deface or mutilate any telephone, telegraph or electric light pole, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 9-1-44)

It is unlawful for any person to store or keep any old articles or materials which may be classified as junk adjacent to or in close proximity to any school house, church, public parks, public grounds, business buildings or residences without first providing proper and tight buildings for the storage of the same.

(Prior code § 9-1-30)

It is unlawful for any person to place or keep on any window sill, porch or other projection above the first story of any building abutting on any sidewalk any article which might do injury by falling upon any person on the sidewalk in front of such building, unless the article is securely fastened or protected by screens.

(Prior code § 9-1-58)

The practice of solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, salesmen, or vendors of goods, wares, merchandise, newspapers, magazines or services of going in and upon private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, newspapers, magazines or services, and/or for the purpose of disposing of, selling, hawking or peddling the same, not having been requested or invited to enter in or upon such private residences or residence by the owner or owners, or occupant or occupants thereof, is prohibited and declared a nuisance. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 9-1-59)

Any person who shall, within the limits of this city, establish or carry on any slaughterhouse, or who shall slaughter animals, or who shall keep any number of hogs or other animals, or who shall permit any stable, or privy or vault to accumulate filth or excrementitious matter so as to emit an offensive smell, to the annoyance of the neighborhood in the vicinity thereof; or who shall permit any cesspool or drainage to collect on his premises under his control, in such manner as to be offensive to the senses or of the inhabitants of the city, or any portion thereof; or who shall place or permit to be or remain upon premises under his control, any slop, garbage, offal, filth, dirt or any article or thing that emits an offensive odor to the annoyance of the inhabitants in the vicinity; or who shall deposit any ashes, filth, rocks, sticks, wood, manure or other article or thing in any slough or conduit running through the city so as to prevent the flow of water therein; or who shall throw or deposit any ashes, filth, rocks, sticks, wood, manure or any other article or thing upon the premises of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 9-1-51)