A. 
The owner of any lot in front of which any sidewalk or curbing has been laid or constructed shall, in the event such sidewalk or curbing shall be in any way damaged or broken, cause the sidewalk or curbing to be repaired within five days after such sidewalk or curbing shall have been damaged or broken. If the premises shall be vacant at the time of the damaging or breaking of any such sidewalk or curbing, the owner shall cause the sidewalk or curbing to be repaired within five days after notice by the City Manager, forwarded to such owner by registered mail.
B. 
The City Manager and the Police Department shall at all times keep the Commissioners informed of any broken or damaged sidewalk, boardwalk or crosswalk within the City.
C. 
A person who requests a building permit shall construct a sidewalk along or in front of the lot where the work is proposed when:
[Added 2-19-2010 by Ord. No. 0210-02[1]]
(1) 
The aggregate value of all projects requiring a building permit during a twelve-month period is at least $20,000; and
(2) 
Fifty percent or more of the lots in the block on the street have a sidewalk.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also amended the title of § 232-1.
[Amended 2-19-2010 by Ord. No. 0210-02]
Any person within the City who shall, voluntarily or pursuant to a notice given under § 32 of the City Charter or pursuant to a requirement of this article, construct or lay a sidewalk along or in front of any property within the City shall conform such sidewalk to the rules and regulations set forth in this article.
A. 
All sidewalks shall be constructed of concrete cast poured in well-supported forms at one pouring at such time as the outside temperature shall not be below 40° F.
B. 
The concrete shall be placed or poured immediately after mixing and shall be tamped and struck off with a template and shall be floated with a wood float until the surface has a true contour both as to grade and as to cross slope. Proper care shall be taken not to bring to the surface an excess of water and fine sand.
[Amended 7-8-1988 by Ord. No. 788-5]
All sidewalks shall conform to the line and grade established by the City Manager or designee. All sidewalks shall be a minimum of five feet wide, and there shall be a cross drainage slope of a minimum of 1/8 inch per foot and a maximum of 1/4 inch per foot. No sidewalk construction shall result in a decrease of the presently existing grass area between the sidewalk and the street.
The cement used shall be portland cement and shall meet the requirements of the standard specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials (Serial Designation C9-32).
The fine aggregate used shall consist of clean, natural or beach sand or screenings from hard, tough, crushed rock and must be well graded. All fine aggregate used shall pass through a one-fourth-inch screen, and 95% shall be retained in a one-hundred-mesh screen.
The coarse aggregate used shall consist of hard, durable, clean and uncoated pebbles, broken stone, blast furnace slag or thoroughly washed gravel. All coarse aggregate shall pass through a one-inch screen, and 95% shall be retained in a one-fourth-inch screen.
The water used shall be clean enough to drink and shall not exceed 6 1/4 gallons per ninety-six-pound bag of cement.
The subgrade shall consist of a layer of local sand or cinders and shall be well drained and compacted to a minimum layer of three inches with a firm surface having a uniform bearing power.
Drains shall be provided in waterlogged or water-bearing soil and shall be ceramic or concrete tile of a minimum diameter of four inches in order that the walk might be protected from damage by frost action.
[Amended 12-10-1993 by Ord. No. 1293-3]
Concrete, when poured, shall be retained or confined in forms, made of smooth forced lumber, having a minimum thickness of two-inch lumber board or of steel of equal strength. On all curves, flexible strips of lumber or metal shall be used and shall rigidly be held to line and grade by stakes and braces. Forms shall be inspected and approved by the Building Inspector prior to the pouring of concrete.
The concrete used in the pouring of any sidewalk shall be mixed until each particle of fine aggregate is coated with cement and until each particle of coarse aggregate is coated with mortar.
Sidewalks shall be cut into separate rectangular slabs, not greater than six feet on any one side, with the surface edges of each slab rounded to a minimum radius of 1/4 inch. Separation of slabs shall be by division plates of steel of a minimum thickness of 1/8 inch and as wide as the depth of the sidewalk and as long as the width of the sidewalk.
The expansion joints of any sidewalk shall have a minimum spacing of 50 feet on any one line or, where the walk intersects the curbline of another walk, shall extend from the surface to the subgrade, shall be at right angles to the sidewalk surface and shall be completely filled with compressible material consisting of premolded strips of bitumin-filled fibre or mineral aggregate at least 1/2 inch thick, five inches wide and two feet long, at all intersections with a curbline or other sidewalk. Expansion joints shall have a minimum thickness of one inch.
The City Manager shall, upon request, inspect any sidewalk laid out within the City. Should the sidewalk comply and conform to the rules and regulations of this article, he shall certify that fact in writing to the person requesting his certificate to that effect.
[Amended 11-21-2025 by Ord. No. 1125-02]
A. 
Any person laying, constructing or repairing or causing to be laid, constructed or repaired any sidewalk within the City who shall fail to comply with this article shall, upon conviction, be subjected to a fine as established in the City Schedule of Fees and Penalties.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The City Schedule of Fees and Penalties is on file in the City offices.
B. 
The Secretary of the Commissioners shall immediately forward to the owner of the property abutting any sidewalk laid in violation of any of the rules and regulations in this article a notice to repair such sidewalk so as to conform to this article. Upon the failure of any abutting owner to comply with such notice in the space of 60 days, the procedure set forth in Section 32 of the Charter of the City shall be pursued.