The owner of any building in the city having a stairway leading from any adjoining sidewalk to the cellar or basement of such building shall guard such stairway with a substantial railing not less than three feet high, and the entrance to such stairway shall be at right angles to the street from which entry is made; and any person who makes or causes to be made any permanent opening in the sidewalk for the purpose of letting light into any basement or cellar, or for any other purpose, shall guard the same with a substantial railing not less than three feet high, or with a substantial iron grate or other strong and substantial cover, but no such railing shall occupy more than two feet of the sidewalk measuring from the inner side thereof.
(Prior Code, § 12.36.030) (Ord. 143, passed - -1926)