Santa Fe, NM Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Encroachment Permits (2026)

4 of the Santa Fe City Code is the city's general encroachment-permit rule for the public right-of-way. 00) fee for each permit. Paragraph B then layers on a safety condition: whoever holds the permit must keep warning lights placed and lit from sundown to sunup at both ends of the obstruction and at intervals no more than fifty feet apart along its length. Paragraph C makes removal mandatory rather than optional. Any obstruction placed in a street or alley, or in the half of the street adjoining a store, shop, building or other premises, in violation of the permit or lighting rules must be removed immediately by the owner or occupant.

City police officers and other authorized employees who find a violating obstruction are directed to notify the responsible party and demand immediate removal; refusing or neglecting to comply lets the city remove the obstruction itself at the owner's or occupant's expense, and interfering with the city's removal crew is a separate violation. The rule traces to Code 1953 Sections 24-4 through 24-7 and was last amended by Ordinance No. 2011-12, so the $100 fee and the fifty-foot lighting spacing standard are the current, operative figures.