[Adopted 6-22-1994 by Ord. No. 5343]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context:
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder or sidewalk,
consisting of the area from curb to curb.
Person, partnership, corporation, association, or any other
legal entity.
Portion of a street between the curblines or the lateral
lines of a cartway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use
by pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of
land fronting or abutting on a sidewalk, whether as tenant, occupant,
lessee, or ultimately owner, shall remove and clear away or cause
to be removed or cleared away snow and/or ice from a path of at least
18 inches in width from so much of said sidewalk as is in front of
or abuts on said building or lot of land; provided, however, that
for the purposes of this section it shall be the duty of the owner
of all establishments containing multifamily housing properties with
four or more units or any property which shall be vacant or unoccupied
to be responsible for removal of snow and ice from the sidewalks as
set forth in this section.
A.Â
Except as provided in Subsection B hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 24 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.Â
In the event snow and/or ice on a sidewalk has become so hard that it cannot be removed without likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned in Subsection A hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel reasonably safe and shall, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 18 inches in width.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on any public cartway or remove any snow or ice from any portion
of the public cartway and move it to any other portion of the public
cartway for any reason whatsoever. No person shall remove snow, ice
or sleet from private property, sidewalk areas, or driveways and deposit
the same on the cartway of the City.
[Amended 6-12-2013 by Ord. No. 5639]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not less than
$50 nor more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution or imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 90 days, or both. Each day that a violation
continues shall constitute a separate offense.
