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 said sidewalks. All sidewalks within the business district shall be cleaned within five hours afer the cessation of a storm unless the storm or fall of snow shall have taken place during the night, in which case the sidewalks shall be cleaned before 10:00 a.m. the following day. In said business district, defined as Main Street between Hughson Street and Wayne Street, and Broadway Street between Nebraska Street and Douglas Street, removal of snow, sleet, ice, mud and other substance may be accomplished by either manually removing such substance using a shovel, by a walk behind or ride snow blower, use of skid loader, and UTV with snow removal equipment attached. Any other means of mechanical removal, including the use of tractors with loaders is prohibited within the business district. Any damages caused during the clearing of snow, sleet, ice, mud, and any other substance is the responsibility and at cost of property owner to repair/replace. Sidewalks within the residential areas of the municipality shall be cleaned within 24 hours after the cessation of the storm. In case such abutting property owner refuses or neglects after 24 hours, to remove all encroachments, including snow, sleet, ice, mud or other substances from such sidewalks as provided in this section, the city may cause such encroachments to be removed and the costs of removal paid out of the Street Fund. The Council shall assess the cost of the notice and removal of the encroachment against such abutting property. Such special assessment shall be known as the special sidewalk assessment and together with the costs of notice shall be levied and collected as a special tax in addition to the general revenue tax and shall be subject to the same penalties and draw interest from the date of the assessment. Upon payment of the assessment, the same shall be credited to the Street Fund.
(Prior Code, § 8-201) (Ord. 654, passed 10-5-2011; Ord. 737, passed 1-11-2023) Penalty, see §
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Statutory reference:
Generally, see Neb. RS 17-557, 17-557.01