[Adopted 3-14-1988[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded
former Art. V, Snow and Ice Removal, adopted 12-14-1970, as amended.
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
any other legal entity.
Area between the curblines or the lateral lines of a street
or highway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians,
excluding the tree lawn area thereof.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular
travel, including the berm or shoulder thereof.
A.
Every person in charge or control of any building
or lot of land 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 or cleared away, snow and/or ice from
a path of at least 30 inches in width from so much of said sidewalk
as is in front of or abuts on said building or lot of land.
B.
Except as provided in Subsection C hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from any sidewalk within 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain, or combination thereof, by the person owning or in charge of the property adjacent thereto and abutting said sidewalk.
C.
In the event snow and/or 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 B hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel reasonably safe; and shall, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 30 inches in width.
Every person in charge or control of any building
or other structure, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or
otherwise, shall remove and clear away or cause to be removed and
cleared away, any accumulation of snow and ice on said building or
other structure which is liable to fall on any sidewalk, street or
highway. Such work shall be completed within a reasonable time, but
not later than 24 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet
or freezing rain.
[Amended 3-6-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
A.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any
snow or ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk,
street or highway, or loading and unloading areas of a public transportation
system, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the municipality
on streets or highways incident to the cleaning thereof, or mounded
on the curbs or tree lawns incident to clearing of sidewalks in business
districts. Anyone hiring a private contractor to remove snow is responsible
for placing all snow on to private property.[1]
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine not more than $300, and/or to imprisonment for a term not to
exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
