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]]
[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.
All sidewalks laid within the City shall have
a minimum width of five feet.
All sidewalks laid within the City shall have
a minimum thickness of at least five inches.
Concrete used shall be composed of one part
cement to two parts of fine aggregate to four parts of coarse aggregate
by volume.
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.
Forms shall not be removed until the concrete
has set for a period of 72 hours.
The finished concrete shall be properly cured
by being kept wet for a minimum of seven days.
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.
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.
