No owner of real property in the City shall be permitted to discharge storm water or rain water or other types of clear water discharges upon or adjacent to the public right-of-way in such a manner that the discharge creates or tends to create a safety hazard for pedestrians and vehicular traffic on the public right-of-way whether such hazard is created in the area immediately bound by the owner property or at a distance from the owner's property.
(a) The Service Safety Director is herewith charged with the responsibility of periodically surveying the city to determine those areas in which rain and other water discharges upon the public right-of-way have in the past and are likely to in the future create ice hazards during the winter season upon the public right-of- way in the City.
(b) The Service Safety Director is also herewith charged with the responsibility of investigating complaints of discharge upon the public right-of-way causing a safety hazard to pedestrian or vehicular traffic on the public right-of-way and where, in their judgment, such discharge creates a safety hazard, to order the owner of the property causing such discharge, whether that property owner be the one immediately adjacent to the hazard or at a distance therefrom, to eliminate the water causing such hazard in conformity with the following provisions.
(c) The Service Safety Director in conjunction with the City Engineer shall determine the source of such water creating such ice hazard and determine the most efficient and economical means of elimination of such hazard and issue such orders as are necessary to achievement of such elimination.
(d) Such orders shall be served upon the property owner and shall provide for the remedial action to be taken within a definite period of time and shall identify with reasonable specificity the means by which such remedial action shall be taken. (Ord. 5-14. Passed 4-14-14.)