A. Removal Required: Every owner, tenant or occupant of any private or public premises or building, and the owner or proprietor, lessee, or person entitled to the possession of any vacant lot or block within the limits of the City shall, during the winter season and during the time the snow shall remain on the ground, clear the sidewalks abutting on such premises of snow and ice and shall keep them conveniently free therefrom during the day.
B. Placement Of Snow Removed From Sidewalks:
1. Streets, Gutters And Other City Properties: Unless otherwise provided, snow removed from sidewalks, parking areas or private properties located inside or outside the City, shall not be thrown, shoveled or placed in the streets, gutters, sidewalks, public parks or on other properties owned by the City.
2. Large Heavy Machines: Large heavy machines such as but not limited to backhoes, large tractors and automobiles with snow plows are prohibited from clearing snow on public sidewalks. Machines with steel cleated tracks, caterpillar tracks, wheel chains or studs are prohibited from being on public sidewalks. Walk behind snow blowers with chains are permitted on public sidewalks.
3. Property Of Another: Snow removed from any property, residential or commercial, shall not be placed on the property of another property owner without the permission of said property owner, nor shall snow be thrown, shoveled, plowed or placed so as to block the view of drivers at street intersections.
C. Failure To Comply; City Removal; Costs Assessed: Whenever any person shall neglect or refuse to comply with this section, the Public Works Superintendent shall cause all such snow and ice to be removed and shall report the same, together with verified vouchers of the cost of such removal, to the City Clerk, and said cost shall be assessed upon the abutting lot, block or property to the sidewalk from which said snow and ice are removed, and the City Clerk shall make a special assessment for the same and report the same to the City Council with the report and vouchers from the Public Works Superintendent. When approved and confirmed by the City Council, said assessment shall be a lien on said lot or block and be collected as other special assessments are collected, pursuant to Idaho Code section 50-1008 et seq. (Ord. 2-2018, 10-8-2018)