(A) Leaving open. It is unlawful for any person to leave or keep open any cellar, door, or grating of any window or vault on any sidewalk or street or to suffer the same to be left or kept open so as to endanger life or limb.
(Prior Code, § 98.07)
(B) Protection. It is unlawful for any person to keep, maintain, use, or operate in any part of any sidewalk within the city any open areas, areaway, or other opening therein, without having the same equipped and maintained with sufficient iron doors or shutters which, when closed, shall be flush with the sidewalk and, when opened, the shutters shall stand perpendicularly and be firmly held in place by iron rods or other appliances, which rods and shutters or other appliances, when the areaway is open, shall be barriers and guards to warn and protect pedestrians using the sidewalk.
(Prior Code, § 98.08)
Penalty, see § 10.999