Section:
14.20.010 Short title.
14.20.020 Definitions.
14.20.030 Duties of property owners.
14.20.040 Notice to repair - Duty of director of public works to give.
14.20.050 Notice to repair - Manner of giving.
14.20.060 Notice to repair - Contents.
14.20.070 Repair by director of public works - When.
14.20.080 Repair by director of public works - Notice of repair costs to property owners - Contents of notice.
14.20.090 Repair by director of public works - Filing notice of lien with tax collector.
14.20.100 Repair by director of public works - Report - Contents.
14.20.110 Repair by director of public works - Report - Action by legislative body.
14.20.120 Repair by director of public works - Collection of repair costs - Lien.
14.20.130 Repair by director of public works - Collection of repair costs - Applicability of city and county tax laws.
14.20.140 Effect of irregularity.
A. “Director ” shall mean the director of the public works department.
B. “Legislative body” means the council.
C. “Lot,” “portion of lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land,” whether used singly or in combination, may, in the discretion of the director for the purpose of this chapter, include any contiguous real property under the same ownership as appears on the last equalized assessment roll used for assessing entity in which the property is situated, whether consisting of unsubdivided land or land subdivided into blocks or lots and blocks.
D. “Owner” means the person owning the fee or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears by deed duly recorded in the county recorder's office of the county in which the property is situated, or the person in possession of the property or buildings under claim of or exercising acts of ownership over the same as owner or as executor, administrator, or guardian of the owner. If the property is leased, the possession of the tenant or lessee holding and occupying such property shall be deemed to be the possession of the owner.
E. Sidewalk. As used in this chapter, “sidewalk” includes a park or parking strip maintained in the area between the property line and the street line, and also includes curbing, bulkheads, driveway approaches, retaining walls or other works for the protection of any sidewalk or any such parking strip.
(Prior code § 23.72 (Ord. 593 §2, Ord. 1111 §46, Ord. 1133 §8, Ord. 2268, Ord. 2364 §140), Ord. 2439 §89)
The owners of lots or portions of lots fronting on any portion of a public street or place, when that street or place is improved, or if and when, the area between the property line of the adjacent property and the street line is maintained as a park or parking strip, shall maintain any sidewalk in such condition that the sidewalk will not endanger persons or property, and maintain it in a condition which will not interfere with the public convenience in the use of those works or areas, save and except to those conditions created or maintained in, upon, along, or in connection with such sidewalk by any person other than the owner, under and by virtue of any permit or right granted to such person by law or by an authorized authority of the city in charge thereof, and such persons shall be under a like duty in relation thereto.
(Prior code § 23.73 (Ord. 593 §3), Ord. 2268)
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