Sec. 19-52. Occupying or using streets or public property contrary
to law.
No person shall undertake to occupy or use any of the
streets, avenues, parks, bridges or other public places or public
property, or any public easement of any description in a
manner not permitted to the general public, or by ordinance,
without having first legally obtained the consent thereto of
the city council, or a franchise therefor. Each day's continuance
thereof shall constitute a separate offense. Such occupancy
shall be deemed a nuisance and the court or judge
trying the case shall have power to cause such nuisance to be
abated and to commit the offenders and all their agents and
employees engaged in such offenses to jail until such order of
the court shall be obeyed.
The parking of a vehicle on the city streets for the purpose
of displaying or selling merchandise shall be deemed a violation
of this section; provided, that temporary stops for the
purpose of making sales by persons licensed as peddlers or
persons of whom no peddler's license is required shall not be
deemed a violation, but no stop by any vehicle at one place
for a period in excess of thirty minutes shall be considered
temporary, and no vehicle shall make more than one stop in
any one block within twenty-four hours. (Code 1959, § 19-52.)
