(A) Any person or persons hereafter desiring to open a passway on a street or streets, alley or alleys, of the city into his or her private property for any purpose shall apply to the Mayor and Chief of Police who are hereby empowered to regulate and establish such entrances or passways and the same to be so established that the street must be properly protected from water entering the street or alley or alleys from all such private passways or walk or extensions of walk or walks, cross ditches, or drains on the sides of the streets or public alleys, must be large enough to fully take care of all water which may flow through said ditches or drains during any rainy seasons.
(B) (1) Any person or persons desiring to extend walkways or private passways or such from private residences or other private place or places for his or her own other convenience or for any other purpose, shall notify the Mayor and Chief of Police of the city and shall erect all such extensions of walks or passways under the supervision of said Mayor and Chief of Police.
(2) The officers shall take into consideration the amount of water likely to pass through the ditches or drains or gutters on the sides of the street or alley and shall have tiles or culverts under all such private passways or walkways or any other kind of private entrance large enough to fully carry and take care of all water that may pass through said ditches, gutters, or drains during heavy rainy seasons.
(C) It shall further be the duty of the Mayor and Chief of Police to, in such cases, see that all such private passways or walks be so constructed and kept in such repair that they will not lead water out on the streets or public alleys to the injury of the same.
(D) This section shall become a law and be in full force and effect on and after its or their passage and publication as the law directs.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)