CHAPTER 136
SIDEWALK REGULATIONS

136.01 Purpose	136.10 Interference with Sidewalk Improvements
136.02 Definitions	136.11 Encroaching Steps
136.03 Removal of Snow, Ice, and Accumulations	136.12 Openings and Enclosures
136.04 Property Owner’s Responsibility for Maintenance	136.13 Fires or Fuel on Sidewalks
136.05 City May Order Repairs	136.14 Defacing
136.06 Sidewalk Construction Ordered	136.15 Debris on Sidewalks
136.07 Permit Required	136.16 Water Over Sidewalks
136.08 Barricades and Warning Lights	136.17 Merchandise Display
136.09 Failure to Repair or Barricade	136.18 Sales Stands

 

136.01 PURPOSE.

The purpose of this chapter is to enhance safe passage by citizens on sidewalks, to place the responsibility for the maintenance, repair, replacement, or reconstruction of sidewalks upon the abutting property owner and to minimize the liability of the City.

136.02 DEFINITIONS.

For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:

1.   “Owner” means the person owning the fee title to property abutting any sidewalk and includes any contract purchaser for purposes of notification required herein. For all other purposes, “owner” includes the lessee, if any.

2.   “Sidewalk” means all permanent public walks in business, residential or suburban areas.

3.   “Sidewalk improvements” means the construction, reconstruction, repair, replacement, or removal, of a public sidewalk and/or the excavating, filling or depositing of material in the public right-of-way in connection therewith.