(A) Owners, occupants and persons in control of any property shall be responsible for keeping all sidewalks adjoining the property clear of snow and ice as provided in this section. Ice shall be cleared by removal or application of sufficient quantities of deicing material or sand.
(B) Failure to remove snow or ice from a sidewalk for a period of 24 consecutive hours is a violation of this chapter.
(C) On sidewalks in the downtown area, accumulations of two or more inches of snow that falls and ice that forms, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., shall be removed immediately, with any snow that accumulates or ice that forms after 9:00 p.m. to be removed by 9:00 a.m. of the following day, with failure to comply with these requirements being a violation of this chapter.
(D) Upon a violation of a requirement of this section, in addition to and without regard to whether the violation is pursued as provided in § 92.32, the Village Manager may cause all snow and ice to be cleared and removed from the sidewalk, at the expense of all persons responsible, with payment of the village's actual and administrative costs and expenses incurred in doing so to be a joint and several debt to the village by all of the persons responsible, which shall be paid in full within 30 days of the village's billing to those persons, and which shall be secured by a lien on the property adjoining the sidewalk from the time the snow and/or ice is cleared and removed by the village.
(Ord. 8.01, passed 10-11-71; Am. Ord. 8.04, passed 2-12-07)