Sidewalk Snow/Ice Removal

SIDEWALK SNOW/CE RULES AND REGULATIONS

Section 1.00. PURPOSE
The purpose of these rules & regulations is to establish procedures for the enforcement of the provisions of Sections 29-226 and 29-227 requiring the clearing of sidewalk of snow and ice.

Section 2.00. AUTHORITY
These rules and regulations are promulgated pursuant to the authority granted in Sections 2- 76 of the Owosso Code.

Section 3.00. INSPECTION
After twenty-four hours has passed following a snow fall in excess of two inches, the Director of Public Works shall cause all sidewalks along major street and trunklines (as designated on the official Act 51 map of the city) to be inspected and a list of addresses shall be made of all properties abutting sidewalks from which accumulations of snow and ice have not been removed.

Section 3.10 INSPECTION FOLLOWING COMPLAINTS
In addition to the inspections required pursuant to Section 3.00, the Director of Public Works shall cause to be inspected sidewalks about which complaints have been received by the Department of Public Works alleging failure to have removed accumulations of snow and ice. The addresses of properties abutting sidewalks from which accumulations of snow and ice have not been removed shall be appended to the list made pursuant to Section 3.00 of these rules and regulations.

Section 3.20. NOTICE OF VIOLATION
Whenever practical, the person performing inspections pursuant to Section 3.00 and 3.1 O shall leave at the property a notice of violation informing the occupant of his/her obligation to remove accumulations of snow and ice from sidewalks abutting his/her property. Such notice shall also state that failure to have removed accumulations of snow and ice from said sidewalks by 8:00 a.m. on the day following the day on which notice of violation is given shall result in removal by the City and the cost of such removal shall be assessed to the property.

Section 3.30. REINSPECTION
After 8:00 a.m. on the day following the day on which inspections were performed pursuant to Sections 3.00 and 3.10, the Director of Public Works shall cause all sidewalks abutting properties whose addresses were listed indicating violation to be reinspected. The addresses of properties from which accumulations of snow and ice was removed subsequent to the initial inspection shall be deleted from the list of addresses in violation.

Section 4.00. REMOVAL OF SNOW AND ICE
The Director of Public Works shall cause accumulations of snow and ice to be removed from all sidewalks which, upon reinspection, were found to be in violation of the provisions of city ordinance and these regulations.