Pursuant to M.S. § 412.221, Subd. 6, as it may be amended from time to time, the City Council has the power to lay out, open, change, widen, or extend streets, alleys, parks, squares, and other public ways and grounds, and to grade, pave, repair, control, and maintain the same; to establish and maintain drains, canals, and sewers; to alter, widen, or straighten water courses; to lay, repair, or otherwise improve or discontinue sidewalks, paths, and crosswalks and to, by ordinance, regulate the use of streets and other public grounds, to prevent encumbrances or obstructions, and to require the owners or occupants of buildings and the owners of vacant lots to remove any snow, ice, dirt, or rubbish from the sidewalks adjacent thereto and in default thereof to cause such encumbrances, obstructions, or substances to be removed and the cost to be assessed against the property as a special assessment.
(Prior Code, § 6.1)