No owner of a lot or parcel of land situated within the corporate limits of the Village shall fail to maintain the existing sidewalks along a street or alley adjacent to the owner’s lot or parcel allowing any of the following defined hazards:
(a) Stubtoes
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The vertical misalignment along any part of the seam between two slabs, or between sections within a slab fractured by cracks, one inch in elevation or greater.
(b) Traverse (lateral) Slope
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Any individual slab or portion of a slab that slopes either toward the paved portion of the street or the adjoining property at a ratio of more than one inch per horizontal foot.
(c) Longitudinal Slope
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Other than handicapped ramps, each individual slab, or fragmented sections of slab, that deviates from the average line of the sidewalk surface level at a ratio of more than one inch per lineal foot.
(d) Gaps. A space between slabs or the depth of the gap between slabs in excess of one inch in width; those caused by the absence of a fragmented section of the sidewalk exceeding one inch in width.
(e) Surface Quality
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(1) Cracked slabs. Slabs fragmented by cracks into four or more sections, where any one of the gaps between fragments is greater than one inch in width or depth.
(2) Pitted slabs
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Slabs whose surface is granular and contains hazardous depressions of surface break-up in excess of one inch in depth. Depth is to be permitted by a two-foot straight edge laid on the surface of the sidewalk.
(f) Surface Irregularity
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Any surface irregularity in the sidewalk that allows impounding of water for more than one square foot in area.
(Ord. 2002-12. Passed 10-24-02.)