§ 18-53. Same—Location.

(a)

No newspaper box shall be installed, placed or maintained on, in, or over any street or right-of-way within the city which is adjacent and contiguous to any tract of land developed with a single-family detached dwelling or a structure devoted to religious worship, unless the owner or owners of the tract of land give written consent (copy of this consent shall be kept on file with the city). However, a newspaper box may be installed, placed or maintained on, in, or over any street or right-of-way within the city which is adjacent and contiguous to any tract of land developed with a single-family detached dwelling if the newspaper box is located within 60 feet of an intersection as defined above.

(b)

No person shall install, place, or maintain any newspaper box which projects onto, into, or over any part of any city street, or which rests, wholly or in part, upon, along or over any portion of a city street.

(c)

No person shall install, place, or maintain any newspaper box which in whole or in part rests upon, in or over any sidewalk or parkway, when such installation, placement, maintenance, or the use thereof endangers the safety of persons or property, or when such site or location is used for public utility purposes, public transportation purposes or other government use, or when such newspaper box unreasonably interferes with or impedes the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, the ingress into or egress from any residence, place of business, or any legally parked or stopped vehicle, or the use of poles, posts, traffic signs or signals, hydrants, mailboxes, or other objects permitted at or near said location.

(d)

No newspaper box shall be installed, placed, or maintained:

(1)

Within one foot of the edge of any property line.

(2)

Within three feet of any fire hydrant, fire call box, police call box or other emergency facility.

(3)

Within three feet of any driveway.

(4)

At any location whereby the clear space for the passageway of pedestrians is reduced to less than three feet.

(e)

No person shall install, place or maintain more than one newspaper box within one-quarter mile of another newspaper box containing the same newspaper along the same street or right-of-way.

(Ord. No. 264, § 4, 10-3-1983; Ord. No. 647, §§ 4, 5, 7-16-1990; Ord. No. 659, §§ 4, 5, 9-17-1990; Code 1983, § 18-53)