521.06 DUTY TO KEEP SIDEWALKS IN REPAIR AND CLEAN.

   (a)   No owner or occupant of abutting lands shall fail to keep the sidewalks, curbs or gutters in repair and free from snow, ice or any nuisance.
(ORC 723.011)

   (b)   Every owner, occupant or person in control of any lot or land within the City along the front or side of which any sidewalk is located or upon which is located any sidewalk forming a continuation of a sidewalk upon a public highway and designed for use by the public as such a continuation, shall keep the sidewalk and continuation thereof free from snow, ice, slush, dirt, mud and any foreign substance. No owner, occupant or person in control shall place any merchandise or other object of any sort upon the sidewalk or continuation thereof, or knowingly permit such merchandise or object to remain thereon. A separate offense shall be deemed to have occurred on each day on which the sidewalks or continuations thereof are permitted to remain in a condition hereinbefore forbidden, or on which merchandise or other objects are placed or knowingly permitted to remain on the sidewalks or continuations thereof. However, no sidewalk or continuation thereof shall be required to be cleaned oftener than once in any one day, nor before the hour of 11:00 a.m. next following the fall of any snow. A continuation of a sidewalk within the meaning of this section shall not include any sidewalk or portion thereof located upon private property used only for single, two-family or multiple- family residences, as defined in the Zoning Code.

   (c)   No person removing snow from any driveway or sidewalk within this City shall deposit the same on the pavement or sidewalk of any public street or any tree lawn in any public street, except the tree lawn immediately in front of the premises from which the snow is removed.
(Ord. 19-66. Passed 2-8-66.)

   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(Ord. 76-2003. Passed 9-23-03.)