[Adopted 11-5-69 by Ord. No. 129-69]
[Amended 6-16-2015 by Ord. No. 25-2015; 6-8-2016 by Ord. No. 31-2016]
The owner of any lands or premises occupying the same which abut or border upon any street, avenue, highway or sidewalk within the City or, in the event that the owner thereof does not occupy such lands or premises, then the lessee, and/or tenant or occupant thereof shall remove all snow or ice from the sidewalks and gutter adjacent to or in front of any such lands and premises within the first eighteen (18) hours after any such snow or ice shall be formed or fall thereon. Notwithstanding any other language in this section; this section shall further extend to any respective agents responsible for the management of same shall remove from driveways, roadways and passageways on their property within eighteen (18) hours after any such snow or ice shall be formed or fall thereon. Furthermore any commercial or business property shall by all means practicable; provide access from the street, avenue or highway to the sidewalk during times of snow or ice accumulation. Said access shall include the creation and maintenance of a minimum of one (1) passageway from the street, avenue or highway to the sidewalks which shall be a minimum of twenty-four (24) inches wide.
The owner of any lands or premises occupying the same which abut or border upon any street, avenue, highway or sidewalk within the city or, in the event that the owner thereof does not occupy such lands or premises, then the lessee, tenant or occupant thereof shall remove all grass, weeds, dirt and other impediments therefrom within three (3) days after notice to remove the same is given, in writing. Such notice may be served personally or mailed by registered mail to the last known post office address of such owner or tenant as shown by the tax records of the city.
In the event that any snow, ice, grass, weeds, dirt and other impediments are not removed from any sidewalks or gutters in accordance with the provisions of §§ 185-7 and 185-8, the same may be removed by or under the direction of the Director of the Public Works Department, and the cost of such removal shall be certified by the Director of the Public Works Department to the City Council, which shall examine the certificate and, if found correct, shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against the lands abutting or bordering such sidewalk or gutter. The amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien and tax upon such land and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands, the same to bear interest at the same rate as taxes and shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
[Added 1-19-71 by Ord. No. 12-71]
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place, deposit or shovel any snow, ice, grass, weeds, dirt or any other impediments in or upon any street, avenue or gutter within the City of Orange.
A. 
Any owner or tenant of any lands within the city, wherever necessary and expedient for the preservation of the public safety, shall keep all brush, hedges and other plant life, growing within ten (10) feet of any roadway and within twenty-five (25) feet of the intersection of two (2) road¬ways, cut to a height of not more than two and one-half (2 1/2) feet within ten (10) days after written notice sent to the last known post office address of such owner or tenant, by registered mail, to cut the same, setting forth in such notice the reasons therefor and providing an opportunity therein to such owner or tenant, within five (5) days of the receipt of such notice, to show cause before the officer sending such notice why the demands made therein should not be complied with.
B. 
In case any owner or tenant fails or neglects to show cause why such cutting should not be done, after proper notice as set forth in this section, or cut the same within ten (10) days, as therein provided, the Chief of Police, his agent or deputy may, on behalf of the city, cause such brush, hedges and other plant life to be cut.
C. 
In every case in which by force of this section the cutting by the city by reason of the refusal or neglect of the tenant or owner to cut the same is done under the direction of the Chief of Police, his agent or deputy, the cost thereof shall be certified to the City Council, which shall examine the certificate of cost and, if found correct, shall cause the same, as shown thereon, to be charged against the lands, and the amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands, the same to bear interest at the rate as taxes and be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as payment of taxes.
D. 
No person shall refuse or neglect, after proper notice, to comply with the demands therein made with respect to any cutting pursuant to this section for the preservation of the public safety and general welfare of the citizens of the city.