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 |
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.
The abutting property owner shall remove snow, ice, and accumulations promptly from sidewalks. If a property owner does not remove snow, ice, or accumulations within 24 hours after the cessation of a snow event, the City may do so and assess the costs against the property owner for collection in the same manner as a property tax. When ice has so formed upon any sidewalk that it cannot be removed, the owner, occupant or person in charge of abutting property shall keep such ice sprinkled with salt, ashes, sawdust, or sand in such manner as to prevent such sidewalk from being dangerous to persons using the same. The abutting property owner may be liable for damages caused by failure to remove snow, ice, and accumulations promptly from the sidewalk.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[2b and e])
The abutting property owner shall maintain in a safe and hazard-free condition any sidewalk outside the lot and property lines and inside the curb lines or, in the absence of a curb, any sidewalk between the property line and that portion of the public street used or improved for vehicular purposes.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12(2)(c))
(Section 136.04 – Ord. 3123 – Sep. 24 Supp.)
If the abutting property owner does not maintain sidewalks as required, the Council may serve notice on such owner, by certified mail, requiring the owner to repair, replace or reconstruct sidewalks within a reasonable time and if such action is not completed within the time stated in the notice, the Council may require the work to be done and assess the costs against the abutting property for collection in the same manner as a property tax.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[2d and e])
The Council may order the construction of permanent sidewalks upon any street or court in the City and may specially assess the cost of such improvement to abutting property owners in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 384 of the Code of Iowa.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 384.38)
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