(a) No owner, agent, lessee or other person who may have a vested or contingent interest in any lot or parcel of ground in the City shall fail to repair the sidewalk or curb which abuts on such lot or parcel of ground after having been notified to do so by either the sidewalk inspector or City Manager, and after having been given ten days to commence the required repairs as specified by the sidewalk inspector or City Manager.
(b) For purposes of this section, a sidewalk or curb or any part thereof is deemed unsafe and in need of repair when any one of the following conditions exists herein:
(1) When the sidewalk contains a hole which is one inch or more in depth and four or more square inches in surface area;
(2) When there is a differential settlement in the sidewalk at a crack or joint therein, or an abrupt elevation or depression in a crack or broken sidewalk or at a joint, causing the one portion of the sidewalk to be one inch or more higher or lower than the portion of the sidewalk or curb contiguous thereto;
(3) When in a brick sidewalk one half or more brick is missing, or when the condition of the sidewalk falls within subsections (b)(1) or (2) above;
(4) When a concrete sidewalk is crushed and/or broken to the extent that there are five or more pieces within the average size square of that sidewalk or eight square feet, whichever is smaller;
(5) When the surface of a concrete sidewalk is spalled to present a rough texture of stone or gravel and covers an area of the average size square of that sidewalk or eight square feet, whichever is smaller;
(6) Whenever a concrete curb is cracked or broken to the extent that the curb has portions missing of a width one inch or more in any one section of the curb.
(c) For purposes of the notice to the owner, agent, lessee or other person having a vested or contingent interest in the property in the notice requirement set forth in subsection (a) hereof, the service of notice shall be done by personal service, residence service or by certified mail, return receipt requested at the election of the sidewalk inspector or City Manager. (Ord. 1978-156. Passed 8-15-78.)