City of Burlington in the Year Two Thousand Twenty-Five An Ordinance in Relation to Sidewalk Interference BCO Chapter 27, Art. I

ORDINANCE 6.10

Sponsor: Dept. of Permitting and Inspections, Ordinance Committee

Public Hearing Dates:

First reading: 11/17/25

Referred to: Ordinance Committee

Rules suspended and placed in all Stages of passage:

Second reading: 12/15/25

Action: adopted

Date 12/15/25

Signed by Mayor: 12/16/25

Published: 01/07/25

Effective: 01/27/26

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows:

That Chapter 27, Streets and Sidewalks, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and is hereby amended by amending Article I, In General, Sec. 27-21, Penalty; to read as follows:

27-4 Unnecessary interference with use of sidewalk.

No person shall unnecessarily occupy, obstruct or encumber, or cause to be unnecessarily occupied, obstructed or encumbered, a sidewalk so as to interfere with the convenient use of the same by the public.

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27-21 Penalty.

A violation of any provision of articles I, III, IV and V of this chapter shall be a civil offense punishable by a civil penalty of from fifty dollars ($50.00) to five hundred dollars ($500.00). The waiver penalty for purposes of the municipal complaint (civil ticket) shall be equal to the waiver penalty established pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 1102(d) for violations of Subchapter 12 of Chapter 13 of Title 23 for each offense. Each day the violation continues shall be a separate offense. All law enforcement officers All municipal employees authorized to issue municipal complaints are authorized to issue a municipal complaint for a violation of this chapter.

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Sec. 27-21.

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