Sahuarita, AZ Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

010 of the Sahuarita Town Code folds sidewalk and alley obstructions into its general public nuisance definition. A public nuisance is defined broadly to include structures, excavations, holes and lots or premises that endanger health, safety or property, and the same subsection separately reaches anything that unlawfully obstructs the free passage, view in a way that creates a traffic hazard, or customary use of any public place, street, sidewalk or alley in the town. That means an encroaching fence, a stack of construction material, an unpermitted sign, or debris left in the right-of-way can all be cited as the same nuisance the chapter uses for junk vehicles and fire hazards.

030, which sets the penalty for both sections at once. Enforcement does not require the town to first prove a traffic accident; the code's own language, obstructing free passage 'in such a way to create a traffic hazard,' is written to reach an obstruction before it causes a collision or a fall. Because the definition sweeps in sidewalk sub-space, cellars and basements, a property owner who lets an excavation or a collapsing wall spill toward a public sidewalk is exposed under the same clause as someone who stacks pallets across it.