Midway Ordinances

 

See also Ordinance 611.1 and 611.3

 

 from Ch.  300 pg. 1

 

 

300.0    PUBLIC SAFETY.

 

 

300.1    HOUSE NUMBERS REQUIRED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    Each and every residence, building, business or other structure within the limits of the City of Midway shall display its assigned street number.

 

 

(2)    All street numbers shall be displayed in a manner so that they are clearly visible and legible from the traveled portion of the street. The minimum size of street numbers shall be three (3) inches in height.

 

 

(3)    The owner of any residence, building, business or other structure which does not display its assigned street number as required by this Ordinance within thirty (30) days after receipt of notice from the City shall be fined $ 5.00 per day for each day of the continuing violation of this Ordinance.

 

 

(4)    The City may, in its discretion, anytime after thirty (30) days from the effective date of this Ordinance, post street numbers upon any residence, building, business or other structure upon which a street number has not been displayed in accordance with this Ordinance and assess a reasonable charge against the property for its expenses, the minimum amount of such charge to be $ 25.00.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Originally adopted by ordinance dated May 7,

1990.

 

 

 

 

641.0    SIDEWALKS.

 

 

641 • 1 SIDEWALK REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND RENOVATION

 

 

1.    Sidewalks reserved for pedestrians. All sidewalks located within the right-of-way of the public thoroughfares of the City of Midway shall be used and reserved for public pedestrian traffic.

 

 

2.    Abutting landowner responsible for maintenance. The owner of real property abutting the sidewalk shall be responsible for the repair and maintenance of the portion of the sidewalk that abuts his or her property.

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3.    Permit required for installation or removal. No sidewalk shall be removed or installed by any person without first having a written permit from the City.

 

 

4.    Permits applications available from City Clerk. Application for a sidewalk repair or installation permit shall be made on forms furnished by the City.

 

 

5.    Permit fees. Fees for a sidewalk installation permits, payable in advance, are as follows:

    Fifty lineal feet or less    $ 5.00

    Each additional 50 feet or fraction thereof    $ 1.00

 

 

6.    Duration of permit. A permit shall expire for work not started within thirty days or completed within ninety days after issuance of a permit, and a new permit shall be required before beginning or completing the work.

 

 

7.    Sidewalk specifications to be established by City Council. Sidewalks shall be constructed in accordance with details and specifications as established by the City Council.

 

 

8.    Grade and line to be established. No sidewalk shall be installed unless a grade and line are established therefor. If no grades or lines are available, sidewalks may be installed, but they shall be removed, modified or replaced to conform to grades and lines when established by the City at the sole cost of the property owner abutting said sidewalk.

 

 

9.    Mayor may designate sidewalk improvement projects. The City of Midway may from time to time designate sidewalk improvement and/or construction projects by adoption of supplementary ordinances under the guidelines of this ordinance.

 

 

10.    City may construct sidewalks. The City may, at its own expense, construct or replace sidewalks within the City upon adoption by the City Council of a plan for the construction or replacement of sidewalks. The plan must show the location of the sidewalks to be constructed or replaced and contain a finding by the City Council that construction or replacement of such sidewalks will promote public safety and welfare. Upon completion of construction, the repair and maintenance of any sidewalks

 

 

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Constructed by the city shall be the responsibility of the abutting landowner in accordance with Section 2 above.

 

 

11.    Penalties for violation. Any person violating the terms of this Ordinance shall be fined the sum of $ 10.00 per day for each day of the continuing violation.

 

 

Compiler’s note:

1.    A Midway Sidewalk Ordinance was originally adopted October 14, 1985 and was entitled “Midway Sidewalk Ordinance.” The text of this ordinance was as follows:

 

 

(1)    All sidewalks located within the right-of-way of the public thoroughfares of the City of Midway shall be the property of the City of Midway, except that each owner of property abutting the sidewalks within the City of Midway right-of-way shall be responsible f or the repair and maintenance of those sidewalks.

 

 

(2)    The City of Midway may from time to time designate sidewalk improvement projects by adoption of supplementary ordinances under the guidelines of this ordinance.

 

 

(3)    Upon adoption by the City Council of a plan for construction, replacement, or repair of sidewalks within the City of Midway showing the area of sidewalks to be constructed, repaired, or replaced the City shall so advise the property owners abutting the sidewalks to be constructed, repaired, or replaced (which property owners shall then be designated as benefited property owners). The notification to the benefited property owners shall be by first class letter to the owner of the property shown on the ad valorem tax bills for the city of Midway. The notification to the benefited property owners of the proposed construction, replacement, or repair project for sidewalks shall be made at least ten (10) days prior to the awarding of bids for performance of the sidewalk work.

 

 

(A)    The total cost of the sidewalk construction, repair, or replacement shall be determined on a per running foot basis, and the benefitted property owner shall be assessed a pro rata part of the cost of the sidewalk construction, repair, or replacement as the number of running feet across the property owned by the benefited property owner relates to the total number of running feet of the project.

 

 

(B)    The ordinance supplementing this sidewalk ordinance and designating the specific sidewalk construction repair or replacement project to be undertaken by the City of Midway may designate that a portion of the cost of the sidewalk construction, repair, or replacement shall be borne by the City of Midway. Any such amount to be paid by the City of Midway for sidewalk construction, repair, or replacement pursuant to a supplementary ordinance designating a sidewalk project, shall be applied pro rata to each benefitted property owner in accordance with the total obligation of that benefitted property owner such that the percentage of savings realized by each benefitted property owner shall be the same.

 

 

(4)    Upon completion of the sidewalk construction, repair, or replacement project the City Clerk shall forward to each benefitted property owner at the address shown on the ad valorem tax bill for the City of Midway a Certificate of Completion and Apportionment indicating the date of completion of the project, and the apportionment of coat to that benefitted property owner. The apportionment of cost to the benefitted property owner shall be due and payable forty-five (45) days after the date of mailing of the Certificate of Completion and Apportionment.

 

 

(A)    Effective with the mailing of the Certificate of Completion and Apportionment the City of Midway shall have a lien against the benefitted property for the amount apportioned to the benefited property owner plus interest at the legal rate as provided by Kentucky Revised Statutes until payment. After forty-five (45) days the City Clerk shall file with the Office of the Woodford County Clerk the Certificate of Completion and Apportionment as evidence of the lien against any benefited property for which the Apportionment has not been paid in full. The Certification of

 

 

 

 

 

 

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650.0.    PUBLIC PARKS.

 

 

650.1.    Hours of Operation of Midway City Park.

 

 

(1.) The usual hours of operation of the Midway City Park, located at 300 Dudley Street, Midway, Kentucky, shall be from sunrise until sunset.

 

 

(2)    No person shall be in, occupy, or otherwise utilize the Midway City Park at any time other than the usual hours of operation without a permit therefor obtained from the City Clerk.

 

 

(3)    Permits for use of the Midway City Park after dusk or before dawn may be obtained by application to the Midway City Clerk. The application must describe the purpose of the use and must specify a use which will not constitute a nuisance or a hazard to the public health and safety. Upon issuance by the City Clerk, the permit will specify the additional hours and purpose(s) of use.

 

 

(4)    Any person denied a permit for use of the Midway City Park pursuant to Section (3) above my appeal such denial to the Mayor.

 

 

(5)    Any person who violates Section (2) above shall, upon conviction, be subjected to a fine of not more than $ 50.00. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and is punishable as such hereunder.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Originally adopted on December 18, 1995 by Ordinance No. 95-09.

 

 

 

 

660.0.    GARBAGE COLLECTION.

 

 

(1)    Definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

 

 

A.    “Garbage.” Refuse and waste matters of all kinds, including wet garbage, ashes, discarded cans, and other materials, excluding medical waste.

 

 

B.    “Medical waste.” Medical waste includes, but is not limited to, bodily fluids or items contaminated with bodily fluids,

 

 

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needles or other objects defined by federal regulations as a biological hazard.

 

 

C.    “Subscriber.” Every household and business within the city limits lawfully receiving city garbage services.

 

 

(2)    Prohibition against placing garbage for disposal except upon designated collection days. No person shall dump, dispose of, leave, or place or cause to be dumped or disposed of, left, or placed upon the property of the city within any Street right-of-way any trash, junk, debris, rubbish, or any other waste material of any kind except on designated days for garbage collection.

 

 

(3)    Collection procedure.

 

 

(A)    Residential garbage pickup within the city limits will be carried out once weekly by the contractor selected by the city and shall apply only to garbage placed in front of the subscriber’ s residence.

 

 

(B)    Business garbage pickup within the city limits will be carried out twice weekly by the contractor selected by the city and shall apply only to garbage placed in front of the establishment, except as otherwise authorized by the City Administrator.

 

 

(C)    All garbage shall be deposited for collection between the sidewalk and curb line of the subscriber’s property and not in the city streets.

 

 

(D)    Residential and business garbage customers shall remove garbage receptacles from the city’s right-of-way in front of their residence or establishment within twenty-four (24) hours of collection.

 

 

(E)    Medical waste of each and every type shall be excluded from city collection.

 

 

(4)    Items excluded from collection. The following items shall be excluded from the city’s garbage collection service:

 

 

(A)    Liquid waste, sewage, human waste, rocks, dirt, tires, oil, batteries or paint in liquid form.

 

 

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(B)    Refuse left over from building construction or demolition

 

 

(C)    Large appliances or items of furniture, including, but not limited to, hot water heaters, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, dryers and sofas.

 

 

(D)    Any material that is beyond the physical safety limitations of the city’s garbage contractor.

 

 

(5)    Collection service limited to garbage generated by subscriber. Garbage collection services provided by the city shall be limited to that garbage generated by a subscriber household or business at the subscriber’s household or business establishment. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit garbage not generated by a subscriber household or subscriber business for city collection. The penalty for violating this Section shall be as set forth in Section (8) below.

 

 

(6)    Permission required to deposit garbage in private receptacle. No person shall deposit garbage into private garbage receptacles without the owner’s permission. The penalty for violating this Section shall be as set forth in Section (8) below.

 

 

(7)    Permission required to deposit garbage in receptacles owned by city unless designated for public use. No person shall deposit garbage into public garbage receptacles, except those public receptacles designated as public receptacles for garbage collection. The penalty for violating this Section shall be as set forth in Section (8) below.

 

 

(8)    Penalties. Any person who violates Section (5), (6), or (7) above shall, upon conviction, be subjected to a fine of not more than $ 50.00. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and is punishable as such hereunder.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Originally adopted on December 18, 1995 by Ordinance No. 95-10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1022.11. KEEPING NOISY ANIMALS PROHIBITED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, pasture or harbor within the city any bull, cow or other animal that bellows or otherwise makes such noise as to disturb the peace and quiet of the people in the neighborhood where the same is kept.

 

 

(2)    Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifteen dollars for each offense.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Twelve of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.0. OFFENSES RELATING TO DOGS.

 

 

1023.1. CONFINEMENT REQUIRED OF BITING DOGS, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or harbor within the city a dog that shall bite or fiercely attack any person while outside of its owners yard or enclosure.

 

 

(2)    Any person who shall violate this section, shall be fined not less than one dollar ($ 1.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($ 50.00) for each time that said dog shall bite or attack a person as provided in this section.

 

 

(3)    This section shall not apply where a person shall break into or enter, without permission, the premises or enclosure of such dog and be pursued therefrom and attached or bitten by the dog.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Thirteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

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1023.2. VICIOUS DOGS TO BE CONTAINED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or harbor within the city a dangerous or vicious dog unless it is at all times kept securely chained or enclosed in such manner that it cannot escape from the owners premises.

 

 

(2)    Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than one dollar ($ 1.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) for each offense.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Fourteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.3 BARKING DOGS PROHIBITED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or harbor within the city any dog that barks or yelps or otherwise makes such noise as to disturb the peace and quite of the people in the neighborhood where the same is kept.

 

 

(2)    Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than five dollars ($ 5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) for each offense.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Fifteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.4. ENTICING DOG FROM OWNER PROHIBITED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful to entice a dog from a yard or enclosure of its owner or keeper, or to bring any dog into the city for the purpose of impounding the same or to remove a muzzle of license tag from any dog without the consent of the owner or keeper thereof.

 

 

(2)    Any person who shall violate this section shall be fined not less than one dollar ($ 1.00) nor more than ten dollars ($ 10.00) for each offense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Sixteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.5. UNLEASHED DOGS IN PARK AND CEMETERY PROHIBITED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for any owner or person in charge of any dog to accompany or take such animal, male or female, except when such dog is upon a leash or chain, into any of the public parks of the city.

 

 

(2)    Any owner or person in charge of such dog who shall violate this section, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar ($ 1.00) nor more than ten dollars ($ 10.00)

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Seventeen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.6. FEMALE DOGS IN HEAT NOT TO RUN AT LARGE, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    It shall be unlawful for the owner of any female dog to permit her, when proud or rutting, to run at large in the city.

 

 

(2)    Any person who shall violate this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($ 5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($ 100.00) or be imprisoned for not less than five nor more than sixty days, or both so fined and imprisoned.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Eighteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.7. DOGS RUNNING AT LARGE PROHIBITED, PENALTY.

 

 

(1)    No owner, custodian, possessor or harborer shall permit any dog to run at large other than on his own premises at any time unless accompanied by the owner, custodian, possessor or harborer and under his immediate control.

 

 

 

 

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(2)    Whoever, being the owner, custodian, possessor or harborer of any dog, violates this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($ 10.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) for each offense.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Section Nineteen of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.8. IMPOUNDMENT OF DOGS.

 

 

(1)    The owner, custodian, possessor or harborer of every dog, shall, at all times, keep such dog either (A) restricted to his own premises, or (B) under the immediate control of such person. The term “under the immediate control”, is defined as the power to manage and direct said dog and is not limited to physical control of the dog. “Immediate Control” shall mean no more than fifty feet from the point of physical control.

 

 

(2)    Any dog found running at large within the city, unless accompanied by the owner, custodian, possessor or harborer and under his immediate control and not confined on the premises of the owner, custodian, possessor or harborer, shall be taken up by a dog warden and held in the pound designated as the county dog pound and there confined in a humane manner for a period of not less than seven days (7) unless sooner claimed by their owners, custodians or persons entitled to possession thereof, and may thereafter be disposed of in a humane manner if not otherwise claimed, sold or adopted.

 

 

(3)    The animal control supervisor may transfer title to all animals held after the legal detention period in subsection (2) hereof has expired and the animal has not been claimed by its owner, custodian or other person entitled to the possession thereof; provided the person to whom title is being transferred licenses said dog according to the laws of the state and pays for a rabies inoculation for said dog together with the boarding charges levied by the dog pound, and in addition thereto the pickup fee payable to the dog pound provided in subsection (4) hereof.

 

 

(4)    Any owner, custodian or other person entitled to the possession of a dog, impounded under subsection (2) hereof may be claimed by such owner, custodian or person entitled to possession

 

 

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thereof upon; proof that said dog has been inoculated against rabies; payment of boarding charges levied by the county dog pound, and payment to the urban county of any fine due, and in addition thereto a pick-up fee of five dollars ($ 5.00).

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as Sections Twenty and Twenty-One of 1020.3 of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979.

 

 

 

 

1023.9 CONTAINMENT OF DOGS AND DAMAGES CAUSED BY DOGS.

 

 

(1)    That any dog within the City, licensed or unlicensed, shall be kept behind a fence or on a leash at all times.

 

 

(2)    Any and all damages to persons or private property shall be the responsibility of the owner of the dog.

 

 

(3)    Any dog picked up by the dog warden shall be impounded and any person reclaiming a dog that has been seized under the provisions of this section shall pay to the Dog Warden Five Dollars for the cost of handling and feeding the dog.

 

 

(4)    Any dog so impounded must be claimed within eight days.

 

 

(5)    The owner of any unlicensed dog shall buy a license tag for the dog before reclaiming it.

 

 

(6)    In the event that any such dog cannot be apprehended in a reasonably easy way and any such owner neglects to cooperate with the apprehending officer, said officer may use whatever means necessary to see that said dog is not permitted to roam at large. Any owner refusing to abide by this ordinance shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars.

 

 

Compiler’s notes: Previously designated as 1020.2 Section Two (10) of the Midway Composite Ordinances of 1979. It was moved to this sect ion by the compiler to consolidate the ordinances concerning dogs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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