A.
Every owner, tenant, occupant, leaseholder, or other person having charge of any building or lot is hereby required to keep the sidewalk area within the public right-of-way, whether paved or unpaved, adjoining said building or lot free of all accumulation of trash, rubbish, weeds, leaves, snow, ice, and other obstructions and to maintain the sidewalk area, whether paved or unpaved, adjoining said building or lot in a safe and litter-free condition.
B.
Every owner, tenant, occupant, leaseholder or other person having charge of any building or lot of ground in the Town with frontage on any street, avenue or public place, including a municipal parking lot, shall, within 12 hours after the cessation of every fall of snow or the formation of any ice on any sidewalk within a public right-of-way running along any front, side or rear yard of said premises, remove or cause the snow or ice to be removed or cleaned entirely from that sidewalk. Such snow or ice removed shall not be deposited in the roadway or sidewalk area within the public right-of-way, nor shall such removed ice or snow be deposited in a manner that impedes pedestrian or vehicle traffic, or access to any buildings, structures, or driveways. The Town Superintendent of Highways may notify the owners of property adjoining sidewalks requiring snow and/or ice clearing that, if the sidewalk is not cleared within 12 hours of the date of said notice, the Town may effect such removal and charge said owners the cost thereof.
C.
The Superintendent of Highways may notify the owners of property adjoining sidewalks in need of repair, maintenance or clearing of obstructions that, unless such repairs, maintenance or clearing of obstructions are performed in accordance with Town specifications within a period of 30 days from the date of said notice, the Town will effect such repairs and charge said owners the cost thereof.
D.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a violation of this section (and not of the New York State Penal Law) and subject to fine not to exceed $100. Such fine shall be in addition to any costs incurred by the Town in correcting the violation.
E.
Upon the failure of such tenant, occupant, leaseholder, or other person having charge of any building or lot to comply with the provisions of Subsections A, B, or C above, the Town Superintendent of Highways, the Building Inspector, the Town Police or their designees shall notify the owner or occupant of such violation and may cause such snow, ice, dirt or other materials and obstructions to be removed or covered with suitable material and shall, in such event, forthwith file a report of the cost or expenses thereof with the Town Clerk. The Town Clerk shall promptly present the owner or occupant with an invoice indicating the cost of labor for said coverage or removal. If the invoice is not paid within 30 days of receipt, said cost and expense, as the same shall appear from said report, shall be a lien upon the premises abutting said sidewalk so reported to have been cleaned or covered as aforesaid until paid, as provided in Subsection F below. The decision by the Town Superintendent of Highways, or Town employees, to remove or not to remove snow, ice, dirt or other materials shall not impose any liability upon the Town. Nothing in this article shall require the Town Superintendent of Highways to remove snow, ice dirt, or other materials from any sidewalks. Any such act by the Town Superintendent of Highways, as provided for in this section, shall be within the sole judgment of said Town Superintendent of Highways judgment shall be final.
F.
The Town shall be reimbursed for the cost of relaying or repairing any sidewalk when made by the Superintendent of Highways pursuant to this article by the owner of the respective lot or parcel of land in front of which the repair was made, by assessment upon and collection from the lot or parcel of land termed benefited by the repair; so much of the actual and complete cost upon and from each lot as shall be in just proportion to the amount of the benefit which the improvement shall confer upon the property, as determined by the Town Board, and collected in the same manner and at the same time as taxes upon said property for Town purposes are levied, collected and enforced. Whenever expenditures are made by the Town for repairing sidewalks or removing from sidewalks ice, snow or other accumulations thereon, which under this article are assessable upon the land affected or improved thereby, the Town shall serve a written notice of at least 10 days upon the tenant, occupant, leaseholder, or other person having charge of any building or lot of such property, stating that such expenditure has been made, its purpose and amount and that at a specified time and place it will meet to make an assessment of the expenditure upon such land. The Board shall meet at the time and place in such notice specified. It shall hear and determine all objections that may be made to such assessment, including the amount thereof, and shall assess upon the land the amount which it may deem just and reasonable, not exceeding, in case of default, the amount stated in the notice. The collection of such unpaid cost or expense shall be assessed upon such property, and the same shall be levied, collected and enforced in the same manner as taxes upon said property for Town purposes are levied, collected and enforced. In addition to the levy of the assessment, an action to recover the amount may be maintained by the Town against the owner or occupant liable therefore.