As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Includes all those areas zoned for business, commercial and industrial purposes in Chapter 290, Zoning, of the City Code and accompanying map as amended or other applicable regulations.
The hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business
day.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
That portion of a street between the curblines or the lateral
lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the
use of pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land
within the City fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, whether
as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove and
clear away, or cause to be removed and cleared away, snow and ice
from a path from so much of a sidewalk as is in front of or abuts
on said building or lot of land. Snow and ice shall be so removed
from sidewalks in all business districts within the City within 24
hours after cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
The path required to be cleared in the business district shall be
six feet in width or the whole width of the sidewalk, whichever is
smaller.
B.
However, in the event snow and 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 above, cause enough sand, cinders or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel thereon reasonably safe; and shall then, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause a path on said sidewalk of at least six feet in width to be thoroughly cleaned.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow and
ice on or against a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway or loading
or unloading areas of a public transportation system, except that
snow and ice may be windrowed on curbs incident to the cleaning of
sidewalks in business districts.
The Mayor is hereby authorized on behalf of the City to cause
sidewalks to be cleared upon the request of the person or entity charged
with snow and ice removal. Any person or entity whose sidewalk is
cleared pursuant to this section shall reimburse the City for the
costs of such clearing.
