If any owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of any real property refuses or neglects to keep any public sidewalk in front of, adjacent to or abutting upon any property owned and/or occupied by him free from snow, ice, dirt, rubbish, debris or other obstruction or foreign matter, for a period of twenty-four consecutive hours or more, then the City shall, without further notice, cause the same to be removed from such sidewalk. The cost thereof shall be charged and assessed against the premises thereby benefited in accordance with Chapter 216 of the Administration Code.
(1975 Code Sec. 4.79)