Current as of: 2010 A municipality may lay out, establish, open, vacate, alter, repair, widen, extend, grade, pave or otherwise improve streets; including, but not necessarily limited to median and divider strips, parkways and boulevards; alleys, avenues, sidewalks, curbs, gutters and public grounds, and may: A. regulate their use and use of structures under them; B. prohibit and remove encroachments or obstructions on them; C. provide for their lighting, cleaning, beautification, landscaping and maintenance; D. regulate their opening or repair; E. require the owner or occupant of any premise to keep the sidewalk, along the premise, free from any snow or other obstruction; F. regulate and prohibit the throwing or depositing of any offensive matter on them; G. prohibit injury to them; H. provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and gutters; I. regulate and prohibit their use for signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, telegraph poles, horse troughs, posting handbills and advertisements; J. regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, placards, advertisements or handbills in the streets or upon the sidewalks; K. regulate and prohibit the flying of banners, flags or signs across the streets or from houses; L. regulate traffic and sales upon streets, sidewalks and public places; M. regulate the numbering of lots and houses; N. name and change the name of any street, alley, avenue or other public place; and O. with the written consent of the owner, regulate the speed and traffic conditions on private property. ________________________________________________________________________
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