[Adopted 2-10-1959 (Ch. 61, § 61-2, of the 1967
Code); amended in it entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
It shall be the responsibility of all persons,
firms, corporations or copartnerships owning or occupying property,
including all sidewalks adjacent thereto in the City of Norwich, New
York, including the owners of unoccupied property therein, to remove
all accumulations of ice and snow from all walkways and sidewalks
on properties under their control within 12 hours from the substantial
completion of such storm.
Failure to remove such materials shall constitute
maintaining a public nuisance and shall be subject to having such
nuisance removed by the City or its designee, and after it shall have
been removed a bill for the expenses incurred by the City, with a
fifty-percent administrative surcharge added thereto, shall be presented
to the owner personally or by leaving the same at his residence, or
if he is a nonresident, by mailing the same to him at his last known
place of residence, or if the name of such owner or his place of residence
cannot be ascertained after due diligence, by posting the same in
a conspicuous place on the premises, and if he shall fail to pay the
same within 10 days thereafter, the Department shall file each year
immediately preceding the time for making the annual assessment roll,
a certificate of the actual cost of the work, together with a statement
as to the property in front of which the cleaning or clearing was
done, with the Director of Finance, who shall, in the preparation
of the next assessment roll for general City taxes, assess such amount
upon such property, and the same shall be levied, corrected, enforced
and collected in the same manner, by the same proceedings, at the
time, under the same penalties and having same lien, upon the property
assessed, as the general City tax and as a part thereof.
