(A) Hereafter, the owner or owners, firms, corporations, or tenants of any lot or premises fronting, abutting, or adjoining the streets, or portions of streets, as hereinafter set forth in division (B) below, which are within the limits of the village, shall not permit the sidewalk or sidewalks in front of or adjacent to said lot or premises, and lying along said street, streets, or portion of a street as set forth in division (B) below, to be obstructed by ice or snow; and said owner, owners, firms, corporations, or tenants shall remove all ice and snow from the sidewalk or sidewalks in front of and adjacent to said lot or premises within 24 hours after the same has formed or fallen upon said sidewalk or sidewalks.
(B) The provisions of this section shall apply to the owner, owners, firms, corporations, or tenants of any lot or premises fronting, abutting, or adjoining upon Burr Avenue (U.S. 31) from its intersection with M-68, south to its intersection with Warren Street, and upon River Street from its intersection with Burr Avenue (U.S. 31) east to Crooked River.
(C) No person from partnership, association, or corporation shall cause, suffer, or permit any snow or ice removed from the adjoining premises to be heaped upon the part of any street between the sidewalk and the gutter within 50 feet of any street intersection or corner to a height in excess of four feet; and whenever any snow or ice removed from the adjoining premises shall be heaped up to a height in excess of four feet at any such place it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of the adjoining premises, or other person or firm having the custody or control of the adjoining premises to remove such part of snow or ice as will result in compliance with this section within 12 hours after being notified by the Village Clerk or his or her duly authorized agent to affect such removal. It shall not be a defense that heaping up of snow in excess of the height above mentioned is partly caused by the natural fall of snow or by acts or omissions of the village or other public authorities in the course of snow removal.
(D) Provided, that if the owner or owners, firms, corporations, or tenants of any lot or premises, subject to the provisions hereof, shall fail to remove the ice or snow obstructing the sidewalk or sidewalks adjoining or in front of said lot or premises, within 24 hours after said ice or snow has formed or has fallen, the Village Council will cause the same to be removed, and the expense, thereof, or such part thereof, as the Council shall have determined, shall be charged to such person and the said Council may cause the amount of such expense incurred thereby for which person or persons shall have become liable, together with a penalty of 10% in addition thereto, to be reported to the Board of Special Assessors, to be levied by it as a special tax or assessment upon the said lot or premises adjacent to and abutting upon the said sidewalk or sidewalks of said person or persons, as the statute in such cases made and provided; or the village may collect such amount, together with the penalty aforesaid, from the person or persons of such lot or premises in an action of assumpsit.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any owner, owners, firms, corporations, or tenants of any lot or premises within the village limits to cause, suffer, or permit any snow or ice to be pushed across any public street, alley, or right-of-way.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any owner, owners, firms, corporations, or tenants of any lot or premises within the village limits to cause, suffer, or permit any snow or ice to be placed on any premises not under his, her, or their immediate control.
(Ord. 75-15, passed 6-2-1975) Penalty, see § 90.99