(A) All parking areas and access drives, except those used for one- or two-family dwellings shall be surfaced with concrete or bituminous in conformance with the specifications of the city in all cases where the streets abutting the property are paved with bituminous or concrete. Gravel surface parking lots will be permitted in an I-3, Planned Industrial District, or where the only access is from a graveled street or alley. However, when the streets or alleys are subsequently paved, the lots and access drives in the abutting property shall also be paved accordingly.
(B) The owner of the principal building or property shall keep required parking, loading areas and driveways neat and accessible at all times, including the removal of snow and sanding of icy surfaces. When failure to comply with the above creates on-street parking problems, the city may cause to be removed from all required parking, loading areas and driveways, beginning 24 hours after snow has ceased to fall, all snow and sand, all ice which may be discovered thereon, and it shall keep a record of the cost of removal and the private property on which the accumulations were found and removed. The City Administrator shall, upon direction of the Council, extend the cost of removal or sanding as a special assessment against the lots or parcels which were cleared, and special assessments shall at the time of certifying taxes to the County Auditor be certified for collection as other special assessments are certified and collected. The City Administrator shall, in the alternative, upon direction of the Council, bring civil suit in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover from the persons owning the lots or parcels which were cleared the cost of clearing and the costs and disbursements of a civil action therefor.
(2002 Code, § 7.41) (Ord. 324, effective 11-20-1965; Ord. 49, Third Series, effective 1-1-1981; Ord. 181, Third Series, effective 1-15-1989; Ord. 30, Third Series, effective 5-15-1991) Penalty, see § 154.999