Blackstone
Zoning districts
1 districts, grouped by category.
General provisions
44 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
No signs advertising such sales shall be affixed to town property or located in a public right-of-way. Signs lawfully erected shall be removed within eight hours after the end of the sale.
at no time shall more than one-half of the street be obstructed. It shall further be the duty of the owner to place nightly on such obstructions one or more red lights, as necessity demands, as a warning to the people.
In no case shall any awning or fixture be allowed or constructed less than seven feet over the sidewalks or less than 20 feet above the streets.
Every gate or door built or constructed in any fence or wall standing on the line of any street, except doors to public buildings which are required to be hung so as to open outward, shall be hung so as to open inward.
The use of skateboards, roller skates or scooters in the municipal parking lots or parking lots used for a municipal purpose, and the streets and sidewalks of any nonresidential zone is prohibited. ... Driving or riding any vehicle or bicycle on the sidewalks of the town is prohibited. The use of skateboards on sidewalks in residential zones is prohibited.
No sidewalk, where space therefor is adequate, shall be less than five feet in width, including the width of curb.
No water from a lot, gutter or spout shall be permitted to flow across the sidewalks or streets from private property. ... All gutters, the waters from which empty upon a street or sidewalk, shall be so constructed as to discharge such water only at or below the surface of the ground.
It shall be the duty of all persons occupying stores or premises fronting on any street to keep the sidewalk immediately in front thereof clean and clear of rubbish, trash, waste paper, filth, or other matter...
It shall be the duty of every occupant of every house or lot which abuts upon a hard-surfaced sidewalk or footway of stone, brick or wood, to have all snow removed from the sidewalk or footway within six hours after the snow shall have ceased falling, unless the snow shall have fallen during the night or on Sunday, in which case it shall be removed by 12:00 noon the day following.
No person shall erect or place any sign or banner across any street, sidewalk or alley in the town. Signs or banners may be placed across streets, sidewalks, town owned property or alleys only by the town. ... Applicants who are approved shall pay a fee of $75.00 for erection and removal of the banner, prior to its erection. Applications must be received at least 60 days prior to the proposed erection date...
No person shall take up or remove any portion of the surface of the sidewalk or street, or excavate in any public street of the town without written permission of the town manager.
No person shall park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control device, in any of the following places: ...
The town manager is hereby authorized to designate certain streets in town for parking for a specified time limit and no longer.
No vehicles other than those displaying disabled parking license plates... shall be parked in any parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities.
It shall be unlawful whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, for any person, firm or corporation to keep, except within a fully enclosed building or structure, on any property zoned for residential, commercial or agricultural purposes, any vehicle, which is inoperative.
No person shall use motor vehicle unmuffled compression brakes within the town limits of the Town of Blackstone, Virginia.
Banners are permitted up to five times a year with no sponsorship and not to exceed 32 square feet on town owned properties.
No sewage or wastewater from any lot or discharge from any sink, bathroom or hydrant or other water fixture shall be permitted to flow into the street, upon the sidewalk or footway, or upon the premises of any adjacent owner.
Every house, mobile home, house trailer or other unit used as a residence and every place of business, manufacturing plant or other business establishment shall be connected to the town water system, unless the water system is inaccessible.
Not more than one house, mobile home, house trailer or other unit used as a residence, including each apartment unit or tenement unit, and not more than one place of business, manufacturing plant or other business establishment shall be supplied from or through any one water tap or connection, except on written permission of the council and not then in any case unless provision is made so that each house, mobile home, house trailer or other unit used as a residence, place of business, manufacturing plant or other business establishment may be shut off independently of all others.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
- CHAPTER 1. - INCORPORATION AND BOUNDARIES1.3K charsRead →
- CHAPTER 2. - POWERS283 charsRead →
- CHAPTER 3. - MAYOR AND COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT7.4K charsRead →
- CHAPTER 4. - MISCELLANEOUS1.1K charsRead →
- Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS12.7K charsRead →
- Chapter 10 - AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS2.1K charsRead →
- Chapter 14 - ANIMALS23.7K charsRead →
- Chapter 18 - BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS92K charsRead →
- Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION11.3K charsRead →
- Chapter 22 - CEMETERIES12.5K charsRead →
- Chapter 24 - ELECTIONS19.8K charsRead →
- Chapter 26 - ENVIRONMENT36.9K charsRead →
- Chapter 30 - FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION11.5K charsRead →
- Chapter 34 - LAW ENFORCEMENT6.7K charsRead →
- Chapter 36 - POLE ATTACHMENTS10.2K charsRead →
- Chapter 38 - OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS16.6K charsRead →
- Chapter 42 - SECONDHAND GOODS2.3K charsRead →
- Chapter 46 - SOLID WASTE8.5K charsRead →
- Chapter 50 - STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES17.3K charsRead →
- Chapter 54 - TAXATION90.6K charsRead →
- Chapter 58 - TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES46.5K charsRead →
- Chapter 6 - ADVERTISING618 charsRead →
- Chapter 62 - UTILITIES49.8K charsRead →
- Chapter 66 - VEHICLES FOR HIRE21.3K charsRead →
- Chapter 8 - AIRPORTS14.3K charsRead →