Section 20-1. Definitions.
As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
- “Alley” means a minor right-of-way dedicated to public use, which gives a secondary means of vehicular access to the back or side or properties otherwise abutting a street, and which may be used for public utility purposes and not intended for general traffic circulation.
- “Commercial driveway” means any driveway other than a residential driveway.
- “Curb cut” means that portion of the curb which may be removed to allow access to private property by use of a driveway.
- “Curb Return” means that portion of a curb which leaves the established curb line and extends toward the private property line for the purpose of defining and establishing the width of a driveway.
- “Driveway” means that portion of a public right of way which is normally used for ingress to and egress from private property abutting a street, alley, easement, or other public way.
- “Driver contractor” means any person, firm, or corporation who has been hired, retained, and employed by a private property owner to perform work upon the driveway of that private property owner.
- “Easement” means a grant by a property owner to the public for the use of a strip of land for specific purposes. When one of those purposes is occasional vehicular traffic, then for the purpose of this article the term easement or alley shall be synonymous and interchangeable.
- “Gutter” means a strip of roadway surfacing adjacent to the curb, separate from the remainder of the roadway pavement, and not more than three (3) feet in width.
- “Intersection street” means any alley which joins another alley or street at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other.
- “Property owner” means any person who performs work on the curb or driveway portions of the Town of Tryon Street and Alley System and which property is used for the residential purposes of the property owner.
- “Public way” means any easement, alley, street, street intersection, or alley intersection.
- “Residential driveway” means a driveway which serves property the primary use of which is for residential purposes whether it be single-family, or multiple-family use.
- “Sidewalk” means that portion of any street, alley, easement, or public way improved and intended for use for pedestrian circulation.
- “Street” means any public or private right-of-way which affords the primary means of access to abutting property.
- “Street works contractor” means any person, firm, or corporation duly licensed and authorized to perform work upon the streets, roadways, and alleys with the Town of Tryon, Oklahoma.
- “Utility cut” means an excavation within any street, alley, or public way for the installation or maintenance of public utilities, whether such utilities be publicly or privately owned or publicly or privately used.
Section 20-2. Trees and Shrubbery to be Trimmed.
The owner of any premises abutting on any street shall trim all trees and shrubbery growing in the parking, between the sidewalks and the roadway, of any such street, and all trees and shrubbery growing on any part of the premises adjacent to the sidewalks or any street or alley, in such manner that the boughs or limbs thereof shall not obstruct free and convenient passage and travel along the streets, sidewalks, and alleys. When such premises are occupied by some person other than the owner, such occupant shall trim the trees and shrubbery in the same manner as hereinbefore required of the owner. Such trees and shrubbery shall be trimmed so that the lowest branches or foliage shall not be lower than ten (10) feet above the roadway of a street or alley, nor lower than eight (8) feet above the sidewalk.
Section 20-3. Unlawful to Injure Trees and Shrubbery.
It is unlawful for any person to injure any tree or shrubbery in a street or alley; provided that this shall not prohibit the lawful and proper care and removal of such trees and shrubbery.
Section 20-4. Unlawful to Obstruct Sidewalks, Parkways, Streets, and Alleys with Merchandise, etc.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to place upon or permit to be placed upon sidewalks, parkways, streets, and alleys any goods, wares, articles of merchandise, or any other obstruction, and leave same thereon; or to use the same as a place to carry on a business or trade, without receiving a written permit from the Board of Trustees which shall be good for a maximum of forty-eight (48) hours.
Section 20-5. Unlawful to Obstruct Unduly Sidewalks and Streets.
- It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to use or obstruct sidewalks in any manner so as to interfere unduly with pedestrian traffic thereon or to use or obstruct streets and alleys in any manner so as to interfere unduly with lawful traffic and parking thereon.
- It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to place or permit to be placed any sign, tree, shrub, bush, or any other article or item so that such item interferes with or obstructs the reasonable line of sight at any intersection, driveway or alley entrance.
Section 20-6. Unlawful to Deposit Trash, etc. Upon Street or Sidewalks.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to deposit, throw, or sweep into or upon streets, alleys, parking, or sidewalks any paper, rubbish, grass, weeds, tree trimmings, dirt, trash, crates, boxes, or other refuse of any kind.
Section 20-7. Street, etc. Not to be Obstructed so as to Interfere with Drainage.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to obstruct any street, sidewalk, or alley, by placing any approach driveway or other obstruction or substance whatever that will obstruct or prevent the natural flow of water into the storm sewers or drains or dam the same so as to back any water upon the streets, alleys, sidewalks, or gutter.
Section 20-8. Unlawful to Play on Sidewalks and in Streets.
It is unlawful for any person to play on sidewalks or upon the main traveled portion of streets and alleys, except as may be authorized by ordinance.
Section 20-9. Business Use of Street and Sidewalks Prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to construct, erect, place, operate, maintain, or permit to exist any ice box, ice dock, gasoline pump, gasoline storage reservoir, tire rack, tire tools or equipment, water hose connection, or mercantile business, or any tools, stand, equipment, sign, advertising mechanism, merchandise, or appurtenances thereof, aerials, poles, or wires therefor, whether permanent or temporary, or any other obstruction, upon any part of any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, sidewalk, curbing, or parking within the Town.
Section 20-10. Water, Mud, etc. From Vehicle Not to Drain onto Street.
No automobile or other vehicle shall be washed at any place where the water, dirt, mud, or other substances removed therefrom by or during the washing thereof, shall drain into or upon any street or sidewalk.
Section 20-11. Water, etc. From Filling Stations and Other Businesses.
It is unlawful for any owner or operator of a filling station or other place of business, or any agent or employee thereof, to cause or allow water, grease, or other fluid to flow or drain into, upon, over, or across any sidewalk, parking, street, alley, or other public way.
Section 20-12. Owner or Occupant Not to Permit Sidewalk or Sidewalk Area to Become a Hazard.
It is unlawful for the owner or occupant of property abutting upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area to permit the sidewalk area adjacent to the property to become a hazard to persons using the sidewalk or sidewalk area.