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Sec. 194. Persons occupying or using streets contrary
to law.

Any person, firm or corporation that shall undertake to occupy
or use any of the streets, avenues, parks, bridges or any 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 by the City Council, or a franchise therefor, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00, each day's continuance
thereof to be a separate offense, and such occupancy
shall be deemed a nuisance, and the court or justice trying the

case shall have power to cause said 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.