(A) It shall be unlawful for the occupant of any lot or lots or the owner of any vacant lot or lots within the corporate limits of the municipality, to allow snow, sleet, mud, ice or other substance to accumulate on the sidewalk contiguous thereto, or to permit any hard trodden snow, sleet, ice, mud or other substance to remain upon said sidewalk; but such sidewalk shall be cleaned within five hours after the cessation of the storm; provided, if the storm or fall of snow shall have taken place in the night time, the sidewalk shall be cleaned before 8:30 a.m. the following day.
(B) The Street Commissioner is responsible for seeing that sidewalks contiguous to any lot or lots within the corporate limits of the municipality are free from snow, sleet, mud, ice or other substance. In the event that any of said substances be found on the sidewalks, notice in writing shall be given to the owner or occupant of the premises contiguous to the sidewalk to remove the substance. If the person owning or occupying such premises be unknown or cannot be found, then said notice shall be given by posting a copy thereupon the premises.
(C) In the event any owner or occupant shall fail to remove the substance after having received notice as provided herein, then the Street Commissioner or other agent of the municipality shall remove the substance and the expense charged against the property and the owner thereof and may be recovered by proper action in the name of the municipality or chargeable against the property as a special assessment.
(D) The cost of removal assessed against the property shall be cumulative and in addition to the penalty hereinafter provided for any violation of the provisions of this chapter.
(1999 Code, § 8-211) Penalty, see § 92.999
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-557