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12-4-1: PROPERTY MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES; SIDEWALKS, PARK STRIPS AND ABUTTER'S ALLEYS:
   A.   It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, occupant or lessee of real property to keep their exterior property free of conditions which violate the provisions of this chapter.
   B.   It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, occupant or lessee of real property abutting and bordering on any public street in the city to keep the area between their property line and the curb or edge of the roadway free of conditions which violate the provisions of this chapter. Such area shall include sidewalks, park strips between streets and sidewalks, or other adjacent landscaped or open areas within a dedicated public right of way.
   C.   It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, occupant or lessee of real property which faces on an abutter's alley to keep that portion of the alley which is adjacent to such property, free of conditions which violate the provisions of this chapter. If the alley was dedicated for the benefit of real property on both sides of the alley, the duty shall extend to the centerline of the alley. If the alley was dedicated only for the benefit of real property along one side of the alley, the duty shall extend for the entire width.
(1979 Code § 8.26.010; Ord. 97-91, 12-16-1997)