Chapter 12.04
SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE1
Sections:
12.04.020 Responsibility for sidewalk maintenance and repair.
12.04.030 Unsafe sidewalk – Notice of repair to abutting owner.
12.04.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning (except where the context requires otherwise) as set out herein. In addition, the definitions set forth in Chapter 1.04 FHMC also apply:
A. “Abutting property” means all property having a frontage upon the sides or margins of any right-of-way or other public place.
B. “Parking strip” or “planting strip” means that part of the right-of-way between the abutting property line and the curb or traveled portion of the street, exclusive of any sidewalk.
C. “Property” means any lot, parcel, real property (improved or unimproved), or portion thereof including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips. (Ord. 1713 § 1, 2021)
12.04.020 Responsibility for sidewalk maintenance and repair.
It shall be the duty of the owner and/or occupant of abutting property to keep the sidewalk, curb, gutter, parking strip, and any driveway access clean and in good repair at the owner’s own expense, and to immediately remove or correct any condition which renders any such sidewalk, curb, gutter, parking strip, or driveway unsafe or unfit for use, including snow, ice, vegetation, or obstruction of any kind, natural or artificial. (Ord. 1713 § 1, 2021)
12.04.030 Unsafe sidewalk – Notice of repair to abutting owner.
A. When any sidewalk previously constructed within the corporate limits of the town has become unsafe for public travel in the judgment of the town administrator, he or she shall serve notice in writing upon the owner or authorized agent of such owner of each tract or parcel of land immediately abutting upon such sidewalk instructing the owner to clear, repair, or renew such sidewalk within a reasonable time not to exceed 30 days from the date of service of the notice.
B. Said notice may be served by registered mail addressed to the owner as shown on the records of the county assessor, or in any manner lawful for the service of summons in civil action under the statutes of the state. (Ord. 1713 § 1, 2021; Ord. 1061 § 1, 1998. Formerly 12.04.010)
Prior legislation: Ord. 1532.