All sidewalks shall be kept clean and in good order by the owner or occupant of the real property abutting thereon and whenever, in the opinion of the Council, any sidewalk or sidewalks need cleaning, Council shall give the owner or occupant of the abutting real property at least 48 hours’ notice requiring such sidewalk to be cleaned and, if the owner or occupant of the abutting real property shall fail or refuse to clean such sidewalk in the manner prescribed in such notice and within the time required by the notice, the same may be done by the town and the cost and expense thereof shall be assessed by Council against such owner or occupant of the abutting real property and may be collected in the same manner as fines and taxes are collected or by an action at law in the name of the town against such owner or occupant for the amount expended by the town in cleaning the sidewalk. All owners or occupants of property abutting a sidewalk must clean sidewalk 24 hours after a snowfall, if they fail to do so, the same may be done by the town and cost be assessed against owner or occupant.
(Ord. passed 1-9-1968)