Whenever the City Council shall order that a sidewalk be constructed in front of any lot or piece of ground in the city in a place where there is no sidewalk, the City Manager, or the designee of the City Manager, thereupon shall notify in writing the owner of such lot or piece of ground of the work or improvement to be done, and such owner so notified shall be allowed one year from the service of such notice within which to construct such sidewalk. Such notice shall be given by delivering the same to the owner in person or by leaving it at his or her usual place of residence in the city, or if he or she be a nonresident of the city, by publication of such notice one time in a legal newspaper published in and of general circulation in the city. Such notice shall notify such owner of the passage of the resolution ordering the construction of such sidewalk; that he or she will have one year from and after the service of notice upon him or her in person or by leaving it at his or her usual place of residence in the city, or from day of publication in the event of notice in that manner, within which to construct the sidewalk so ordered or cause the same to be done; and that if he or she fails to construct such sidewalk, or cause the same to be done, within one year after such notice, then and in that case, the city will cause such sidewalk to be constructed and the cost will be levied and assessed thereafter by the City Council as a special tax against such premises.
(Ord. 1116, passed 2-25-1957; Ord. 3685, passed - -2001)