(a) Every owner, occupant or person in control of any lot or land along the front or side of which any sidewalk is located, or upon which is located any sidewalk forming a continuation of a sidewalk upon a public highway and designed for use by the public as such a continuation, shall keep such sidewalk and continuation thereof free from snow, ice, slush, dirt, mud and any other foreign substance. No such owner, occupant or person in control shall place any merchandise or other object of any sort upon such sidewalk or continuation thereof, or knowingly permit such merchandise or object to remain thereon.
A separate offense shall be deemed to have occurred on each day on which such sidewalks or continuations thereof are permitted to remain in a condition hereinbefore forbidden, or on which merchandise or other objects are placed or knowingly permitted to remain on such sidewalks or continuations thereof; provided that no sidewalk or continuation thereof shall be required to be cleaned more often than once in any one day nor before the hour of 9:00 a.m. next following the fall of any snow.
A continuation of a sidewalk within the meaning of this section shall not include any sidewalk or portion thereof located upon private property and used only for single-, two-family or multiple-family residences.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(c) On any claim presented for bodily injury or property damage on the sidewalk, the adjoining or abutting property owner shall be held liable in tort for such damages to another. Alternatively, should the City of Garfield Heights be called upon to make such payments to a third party, the City will look to the adjoining/abutting landowner for contribution and indemnity. (Ord. 6-2003. Passed 1-27-03.)