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CHAPTER 5 - STREETS AND SIDEWALKS

                ARTICLE  1 - DAMAGING STREETS AND SIDEWALKS

SECTION 5.1 - Cutting Streets and Sidewalks

No person shall make any excavations, cut or make any other opening in any of the streets or sidewalks without first having obtained permission from the mayor or town board.

SECTION 5.2 - Street Repair

Every person, firm or corporation, who shall open or dig a ditch, trench or holes in any street or cut or otherwise injure the streets, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters shall be responsible for replacing or repairing same at their own expense.

SECTION 5.3 - Injury to Streets or Sidewalks

No person shall injure, deface or mar in any manner what so ever any of the streets or sidewalks.  The Town shall have the right and privilege to repair any such injury, defacement or mar and assess the cost there of against the offender.

                ARTICLE  2 - OBSTRUCTING STREETS AND SIDEWALKS

SECTION 5.10- Obstructing Walk Area

No item shall be place on sidewalks that obstructs walk area.

                ARTICLE  3 - USE AND CLEANLINESS OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS  

SECTION 5.15 - Injury To

It shall be unlawful to pull down, cut, deface with signs, break or in any way injure any of the trees, shrubs or flowers on any street or square.

SECTION 5.16 - Throwing or Burning Trash

It shall be unlawful to place in any of the streets or sidewalks or in or about any public building any trash or rubbish of any description or to burn the same in any of the aforementioned places.

SECTION 5.17 - Tree Trimmings

It shall be unlawful for any person to place or allow to be placed any tree trimmings or shrubbery on any street or sidewalk in the city so as to obstruct free passage of persons and vehicles there on.

SECTION 5.18 - Littering Prohibited

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, organization or private corporation to throw or deposit upon any street or sidewalk, or upon any private property, except with written permission of the owner or occupant to such private property, any trash, refuse, garbage, building material, cans, bottles, broken glass, paper, or any type of litter.

SECTION 5.19 - Same; From Vehicles

It shall be unlawful for any person, while a driver or a passenger in a vehicle to throw or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the Town, or upon private property.

SECTION 5.20 - Scrap on Street Right-of-Way Prohibited

It is unlawful for any person, firm, organization or private corporation, or for the governing body, agents or employees of the Town to place or leave or cause to be placed or left temporarily or permanently, any trash, garbage, scrapped automobile, scrapped truck or part thereof, on the right-of-way of any street or public road of the Town.

The placing or leaving of the articles or matter forbidden by this section shall, for each day or portion thereof that articles or matter are placed or left, constitute a separate offense.

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Town Of Harmony
P.O. Box 118
3389 Harmony Hwy
Harmony, NC 28634
704-546-2339