[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Nassau: Art. I, 4-1-85 as L.L. No. 1-1985; Art. II, during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Subdivision of land - See Ch. 100.
[Adopted 4-1-85 as L.L. No. 1-1985]
No civil action shall be maintained against the Village of Nassau for damages or injuries to persons or property sustained by reason of any highway, sidewalk, bridge or culvert being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed, unless prior written notice of such defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition was received by the Clerk of the Village of Nassau and there was failure or neglect, within a reasonable time after the giving of such notice, to repair or remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained of.
No civil action shall be maintained for damages or injuries to persons or property sustained in consequence of the existence of snow or ice upon any highway, sidewalk, bridge or culvert, unless prior written notice thereof, specifying the particular place, was actually received by the Clerk of the Village of Nassau and there was a failure or neglect to cause such snow or ice to be removed or to make the place otherwise reasonably safe within a reasonable time after the receipt of such notice.
The Clerk of the Village of Nassau shall keep an indexed record, in a separate book, of all written notices, which said Clerk shall receive pursuant to this Article, of the existence of a defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition in or upon or of an accumulation of ice or snow upon any highway, sidewalk, bridge or culvert, which record shall state the date of receipt of the notice, the nature and location of the condition stated to exist and the name and address of the person from whom the notice is received. The record of each notice shall be preserved for a period of three (3) years after the date it is received.
[Adopted during codification[1]]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.
A. 
The owner or owners, occupant or occupants or tenant or tenants of premises abutting or bordering upon any street in the Village of Nassau shall remove all snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such streets or, in the case of ice which may be so frozen as to make removal impracticable, shall cause the same to be thoroughly covered with sand, salt or cinders within twenty-four (24) hours after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.
B. 
In case the building is occupied by more than one (1) family or business unit, then the tenant or occupant of the first floor or story thereof is hereby required to remove all snow and ice from such portion of the sidewalks or, in the case of ice which is impracticable to remove, cover the same with sand, salt or cinders within twenty-four (24) hours after the same shall be formed or fall thereon. The sidewalk shall be cleared of snow and ice so as to create a clear, open path not less than twenty-four (24) inches in width.
In case such snow or ice shall not be removed from such sidewalks or shall be deposited or placed upon said sidewalks or said streets by the owner or owners, tenant or tenants or occupant or occupants of any said premises, as provided in § 96-4 hereof, the same shall be removed forthwith under the direction of the Code Enforcement Officer, and the cost of such removal, as nearly as can be ascertained, shall be certified by the Code Enforcement Officer to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall examine such certification and, if found to be correct, shall cause such cost to be charged against such real estate so abutting or bordering upon such sidewalks, and the amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien and a tax upon such real estate or land and shall be added to, recorded and collected in the same way and manner as the taxes next to be levied and assessed upon such premises and shall bear interest and be enforced and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes. The imposition and collection of a fine or fines imposed by § 96-6 of this Article shall not constitute any bar to the right of the Village of Nassau to collect the cost as certified for the removal of said snow or ice in the manner herein authorized.
No person, firm or corporation shall deposit, throw, place or strew, nor shall any person, firm or corporation cause to be deposited, thrown, placed or strewn, any snow or ice upon any street, avenue or roadway within the village.
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall pile, gather up, plow up or in any way force any snow or ice upon any street, avenue or roadway within the village or from one street, avenue or roadway onto any other street, avenue or roadway within the village.
B. 
No person, firm or corporation shall pile, gather up, plow up or in any way force any snow or ice upon any terrace or parcel of land within six (6) feet of any street, avenue or roadway in such a manner as to cause the height of the snow and ice so piled, gathered, plowed or forced to exceed three (3) feet six (6) inches in height above the existing natural grade of said terrace or parcel of land within six (6) feet of said street, except that it shall be unlawful to cover a fire hydrant with snow or ice.
C. 
No person, firm, corporation, property owner or occupant shall remove snow or ice from any parcel of real estate and place it upon another parcel of real estate without the express permission of the owner of the parcel of real estate upon which the snow or ice is to be placed.
D. 
Any person, firm or corporation piling, gathering or plowing up snow or ice on any public street, avenue or roadway or to an excess height as indicated in Subsection B, shall forthwith remove the same, at his or its expense, upon the request of the Code Enforcement Officer of the village.
In case snow and ice on any sidewalk shall be frozen so hard that it cannot be removed without injury to the sidewalk, it shall, within the time specified in § 96-4, be strewn and kept strewn with ashes, sand, sawdust or other suitable material so as to be no longer dangerous to life and limb. As soon as practical thereafter, the sidewalk shall be completely cleared of snow, ice and other materials strewn thereon, as provided in this Article.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction, be punishable by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen (15) days, or both.