(a) Construction and Maintenance. All railroad companies operating in or through the City shall build and keep in repair, good and sufficient crossings over, or approaches to, such railroad, its tracks, side-tracks and switches at all points where any public street, lane, avenue or place is intersected by such railroad, its tracks, side-tracks or switches. Such railroad companies shall also build and keep in repair good and sufficient sidewalks on both sides of streets intersected by their roads for the full width of the right of way, owned, claimed or occupied by them. Before starting to construct or repair such crossing, approach or sidewalk, such railroad company shall notify the City Engineer and such work shall be done under the supervision of the City.
(b) Notice by Council. When a crossing, approach or sidewalk is ordered by Council to be constructed or repaired, the Director of Public Safety shall serve a written notice upon the nearest station agent or section foreman having charge of that portion of the railroad where it intersects with the streets or public places covered by the order, that the crossing, approach or sidewalk must be built or repaired, setting forth its kind and extent and the manner of constructing it if Council so specifies.
(c) Compliance Time, City Action. A railroad company when notified as required by subsection (b) hereof must comply with such notice within a period of thirty days after receiving it. In failure so to do, Council may cause such crossing, approach or sidewalk to be constructed or repaired as ordered and recover the cost of so doing with interest thereon in a civil action against the railroad company in the name of the City. (1964 Code §515.01-515.03)