(A) It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any building in front of which or adjacent to which a sidewalk has been constructed for the use of the public, to allow any accumulation of snow or ice remain upon the sidewalk longer than 12 hours after the snow or ice has ceased to be deposited thereon.
(B) All snow and ice remaining upon public sidewalks is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance, and all persons owning vacant property adjacent to the public walks are herby required to abate that nuisance or cause the same to be abated within 12 hours after the snow or ice has ceased to be deposited on the sidewalk.
(C) It shall be the duty of the City Street Department to be caused to be removed from all public sidewalks, beginning 12 hours after any snow or ice has ceased to fall, all snow and ice which may be discovered thereon, and they shall keep a record of the cost of the removal and the lot or lots adjacent to which those accumulations were found and removed, and shall deliver that information to the Clerk as soon as the work of removal is completed.
(D) The Clerk, shall, upon the direction of the Council, on receipt of the information provided for in the preceding section to be delivered to him or her by the City Street Department, extend the cost of the removal of snow and ice as a special tax against the lots or parcels of ground abutting on which walks were cleared, and the special tax shall at the time of certifying taxes to the County Auditor be certified for collection as other special taxes are certified and collected.
(E) The Clerk, shall, at the direction of the Council, bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover from the person, firm or corporation owning land adjacent to which sidewalks were cleared, as provided in paragraph (B) above, the cost of the clearing and the costs of the suit in a civil action.
(F) It shall be the duty of the Clerk to present the council at its first meeting after any snow or ice has been cleared from the sidewalks as provided in paragraph (B) above the report of the Street Department thereon and to request the Council to determine by resolution whether the procedure provided in paragraphs (D), (E) above or §10.99 of this code shall be followed, or any combination of two or more of those procedures.