It is unlawful for the proprietor, manager, owner, or lessee of any building used for a hotel, lodging house, restaurant, cafe, or other public place to permit the entranceways or aisles leading from the street, or the spaces about or in the doorways, to be used or occupied, temporarily or permanently, by seated persons or by chairs, stools or other obstructions or obstacles calculated to hinder or endanger the free and easy passage of persons in and out of such occupied buildings. It is unlawful for any person to place any chair, stool, or other obstacle or to be seated in the entranceways, aisles, spaces about the doors or doorways of any such occupied building. (Prior code § 9-5-2)