[Amended 7-6-1981 by Ord. No. 22-81; 4-4-1983 by Ord. No.
11-83; 8-21-2012 by Ord. No. 17-2012]
A.
Any person owning any land fronting upon any public street, highway,
curb or sidewalk in the City shall, at his own charge and expense,
repair, in accordance with the requirements of this article and regulations
promulgated hereunder, any sidewalk, authorized installations therein
and thereon and curb and gutter of such street which is broken, disintegrated,
uneven or otherwise defective to such an extent that it would be likely
to cause a pedestrian to trip or fall.
B.
The surface of all concrete sidewalk shall be kept properly roughened
so as not to become smooth and slippery.
C.
Construction of public sidewalks shall be of concrete, brick or slate
in accordance with specifications and/or regulations prepared by the
Consulting Municipal Engineer of the Building, Housing and Land Use
Department of the City of Hackensack.
A.
The Mayor and Council of the City of Hackensack may, by resolution,
cause a notice in writing to be served upon the owners or occupants
of land abutting any sidewalk, curb or gutter which has not been maintained
in good repair in accordance with the requirements of this article
and the regulations promulgated hereunder.
B.
The notice shall state the following:
(1)
The necessary specified work to said sidewalk, curb or gutter required
to be done by said owner or occupant.
(2)
The time within which such work shall be completed, provided that
said time period shall not be less than 30 days from the date of service
of such notice.
(3)
The failure of the owner or occupant to perform the required work
within the time period stated shall permit the municipality to cause
the work to be done and paid for out of available municipal funds,
following which the cost of such work shall become a lien upon the
abutting lands in front of which such work was done. Such lien shall
have the same effect as an assessment for local improvements and may
be collected in a manner provided by law for the collection of such
other assessments.
(4)
Such notice shall further state that a municipality may have an action
to recover the cost of such work against the owner of lands in any
court having competent jurisdiction thereof.
C.
Whenever any lands are unoccupied and the owner cannot be found within
the municipality, the notice may be mailed, postage prepaid, to his
or her post office address, if the same can be ascertained; in case
such owner is a nonresident of the municipality or his or her post
office address cannot be ascertained, then the notice may be inserted
for four weeks, once a week, in some newspaper of such municipality
or, if none be published therein, then in some newspaper published
in the state and circulating in said municipality.
In the event the owner or occupant of lands abutting a sidewalk,
curb or gutter shall not comply with the requirements of the notice
to repair, it shall be lawful for the Building, Housing and Land Use
Department of the City of Hackensack, pursuant to the procedure set
forth in N.J.S.A. 40:65-14, to cause the work to be performed and
the cost of same paid for out of available municipal funds, and the
same shall become a lien upon the abutting lands in front of which
such work was to be performed.
The Consulting Municipal Engineer of the Building, Housing and
Land Use Department of the City of Hackensack shall prepare specifications
and regulations governing the construction and repair of sidewalks,
curbs and gutters.
