(A) It shall be unlawful for the occupant of any lot or lots or the owner of any vacant lot or lots within the corporate limits to allow snow, sleet, mud, ice, or other substance to accumulate on the sidewalks or to permit any snow, sleet, ice, mud, or other substance to remain upon the sidewalk. All sidewalks within the business district shall be cleaned within five hours after the cessation of a storm, unless the storm or fall of snow shall have taken place during the night, in which case the sidewalk shall be cleaned before 9:00 a.m. the following day, provided that sidewalks within the residential areas of the municipality shall be cleaned within 24 hours after the cessation of the storm.
(B) Notice to remove such substance shall be made upon the owner, agent or occupant of the premises, the notice to demand the removal of the substance forthwith. If the person owning such premises be unknown or cannot be found or any reasonable service cannot be made upon any such owner, agent or occupant within this village, then and in that case such service of the notice shall be made by posting a typewritten copy thereof in some conspicuous place on the premises.
(1979 Code, Ch. 19, § 2)
(C) In case the owner, agent or occupant of any lot, lots or parcels of land shall fail to remove the ice, snow, mud or other substance after due notice shall have been given, then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the Police Chief to remove such substance, and the expense thereof shall be charged against the property as a special assessment for improvements.
(1979 Code, Ch. 19, § 3)
(D) In addition to the owner or occupant of any lot, lots or parcels of land being liable for the immediate removal of such snow, ice, mud or other substance from the walks or paths abutting their property, he or they may be charged, upon complaint of the Police Chief, with committing a misdemeanor and may be liable as determined by § 10.99.
(1979 Code, Ch. 19, § 4)
Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross reference:
Cutting into sidewalk, see § 93.045
Eave and gutter spout, see § 93.051
Statutory reference:
Authority to regulate, see Neb. RS 17-557