2000-72 REGULATING ENCROACHMENT ON PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY

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� • pedestrian traffic or traffic on the highway. The permissive retention of overhanging signs is not to be construed as being applicable to those signs supported from poles constructed outside the project right-of-way line and not confined by adjacent buildings; Construction Easement Area is defined as the area lying between the project Right-of-way limits and the platted street limits which the City, by concurrence in the establishment of the project Right-of-way lines, will permit the State to enter to perform all necessary construction operations; and, WHEREAS, representatives of the City and the State have, by visual inspection, cooperatively established project right-of-way lines and have mutually determined the disposition of encroachments. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect or cause to be erected, to retain or cause to be retained, any encroachment (herein above defined), within the limits of the project Right-of-way or roadway Right-of-way where no project right-of-way lines have been established. Section 2. Project right-of-way lines have been established at the following locations: The east and west sides of U.S. Route 51 (Alt.) for the project limits described in Agreement JN-500008 between the City and the State (602' South and 1,245' North of Ash Avenue), AND The North and South sides of Ash Avenue for the project limits described in �greement JN-500008 between the City and the State(158" West and 1,148' East of U.S. Route 51). Section 3. This ordinance is intended to and shall be in addition to all other ordinances,rules and regulations concerning encroachments and shall not be construed as repealing or rescinding any other ordinance or part of any ordinance unless in direct conflict therewith. Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating this ordinance shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed for each and every day during which a violation continues or exists.