Upon receipt of a request or complaint, it shall be the duty of the Building Inspector and, if necessary, the city's engineer to make inspections of walls, retaining walls or bulkhead walls that support public sidewalks or roadways and when necessary to condemn any wall which needs repairs or must be replaced, and to require the abutting owner of the property to repair same by serving written notice requiring repairs to be made within ten days or a longer period specified in the notice.
(Prior Code, § 18-701)