Every person owning or occupying or being entitled to the possession of any real property in the Village having a sidewalk on such property or in a right-of-way adjoining such property shall keep said sidewalks free from obstruction from snow or ice and shall, within 24 hours after said snow or ice have fallen to the ground, remove the same, and shall also at all times keep said sidewalks in good and safe repair and clean and free from dirt, filth and weeds or other obstructions and encumbrances.
[Adopted 3-6-1996 as part of L.L. No. 1-1996]
The Board of Trustees may from time to time by resolution require the construction, repair or maintenance of sidewalks or curbs along streets and roads in the Village of Saddle Rock at the expense of the owner or owners of the private property on which or adjacent to which such sidewalks or curbs are located or are to be located, upon such notice and pursuant to the authority or requirements of the Village Law of the State of New York.
No sidewalk, curb or gutter shall be constructed or permitted to be constructed along any street, road or highway in the Village unless such construction shall be in conformity with all of the specifications and requirements established by rules and regulations of the Board of Trustees.
All sidewalks, curbs, gutters or driveways constructed on any privately owned street or highway of a new development shall be subject to this chapter and shall comply in all respects with the regulations applicable to streets, the title to which is vested in the Village. Failure to comply with these requirements shall constitute sufficient cause for the Village to reject any proffered dedication of such streets.
No trees shall be planted within a right-of-way or within the area between any sidewalk and the paved portion of a right-of-way, except trees whose root systems normally will not cause damage to sidewalks, curbs or utility installations. Trees of the following varieties only may be planted: sugar maple (Acer saccharum), tree of heaven (Ailanthus), northern red oak (Quercus borealis), scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), pin oak (Quercus palustris), American linden (Tilia Americana), silver linden (Tilia tomentosa), moraine honey locust (Gleditsia tricanthos), moraine flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), red flowering dogwood (Cornus florida rubra), Japanese dogwood (Cornus kousa), goldenrain (Koelreuteria paniculata), sourwood (oxydendrum arboreum), easter plane (Platanus orientalis) and flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus).
Whenever the Board of Trustees adopts an order directing the owner of real property on or adjacent to which it is desired that sidewalks be built, relaid or repaired to construct the same in accordance with this chapter, the Board of Trustees shall specify the place, manner and time within which such construction or repair shall be done, which time shall not be less than 48 hours.
The Village Clerk shall publish a notice of any such order in the official newspaper at least twice. The first such publication shall be at least 15 days before the time specified for the completion of the work. However, in lieu of such publication, a copy of such notice may be served by certified mail, return receipt requested, upon the owner of the real property on or adjacent to which such construction or repair shall be done.
Whenever a notice issued pursuant to this article has been served as provided herein and the person to whom such notice is directed does not cause the construction or repair to be made to the sidewalk as required by the notice, the Building Inspector is hereby authorized and directed to cause the construction and repair to be made as required by the notice.
The Village shall be reimbursed for the actual and necessary cost of building, relaying or repairing any sidewalk on or adjacent to or adjoining any property when such work is required by this article. Such reimbursement shall be made by assessment upon and collection from such properties or parcels of land deemed to be benefited by such construction or repair, such costs to be assessed and collected upon and from each such lot or lots as shall be in proportion to the amount of benefit which the improvement shall confer upon the same, which amounts shall be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other Village taxes upon real property.