(a) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge surface water upon the surface of any sidewalk within the City of Massillon. No owner or other person shall discharge surface water from any premises by means of water spout, or in any manner, upon the surface of any sidewalk or any part thereof, or by means of an open gutter or ditch across the sidewalk.
(b) All waterspouts or drains for surface water shall be connected with drains or pipes under the surface of the sidewalk to the gutter or other drain provided for general drainage of surface water through which all surface water shall be discharged from any premises in the City of Massillon. No part of the surface water shall be discharged upon the sidewalk. But nothing herein contained shall permit any waste, filth or refuse water to be discharged into any gutter or street or drain, other than into a sanitary sewer.
(c) If such owner does not, within sixty (60) days after notice to do so, weather permitting, make the necessary repairs or improvements to such drain lines, Council, upon resolution, shall notify the property owner of its intent to make the necessary repairs and shall thereafter, if repairs are not made within five days after the service of notice of the resolution, authorize the Director of Public Safety and Service to make the necessary repairs and improvements, and further direct that the expense of such repairs or improvements shall be assessed upon the property so abutting and certify to the County Auditor for collection in the matter of other taxes and assessments against real estate.
(d) The Auditor shall certify such expenses to the County Auditor upon the report of the Safety-Service Director, which expense shall be placed on a tax duplicate and collected as other taxes are collected, or the Auditor may collect the expenses by civil action before the municipal court or any justice of the peace against the owner of the property.
(Ord. 14-2011. Passed 4-4-11.)