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)