[Amended 8-21-2012 by Ord. No. 17-2012]
A.Â
No person shall maintain or permit to remain any cellar entrance
occupying any portion of a public sidewalk that is dangerous to the
public using such sidewalk.
B.Â
No cellar door occupying any portion of a public sidewalk shall remain
open for any other purpose or for any greater time than is necessary
for the passage to the cellar for loading or unloading the cellar.
No such door shall remain open unless an approved device is used to
prevent pedestrians from falling into such opening. Failure to keep
such cellar door entirely closed when not in actual use as above specified
shall be sufficient cause for the Building. Housing and Land Use Department
to order the removal of such cellar door and the restoration of the
sidewalk to its proper condition.
Whenever the removal of any sidewalk cellar entrance shall become
necessary because of public improvement or public utility construction,
the person maintaining such entrance or owning or occupying the property
of which such entrance is a part shall, upon 30 days' notice from
the Building, Housing and Land Use Department, remove such entrance
and restore the earth, pavement or other sidewalk surface to its proper
condition.
