Chapter 12.08
SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE
AND REPAIR
Sections:
12.08.010 Responsibility of property owner.
12.08.020 Notice to clear or repair.
12.08.010 Responsibility of property owner.
Whenever any street, lane, square, place, or alley in the city has been improved by the construction of a sidewalk or sidewalks along either or both sides thereof, the duty, burden, and expense of maintenance, repair, and renewal of such sidewalk or sidewalks shall devolve upon the property directly abutting upon the side of such street, lane, square, place, or alley along which such sidewalk has been constructed, as provided in this chapter. (Ord. 304 § 1, 1950).
12.08.020 Notice to clear or repair.
Whenever in the judgment of the officer or department of the city charged with the inspection and care of sidewalks the condition of any sidewalk is such as to render the same unfit or unsafe for purposes of public travel, the officer or department shall thereupon serve a notice on the owner of the property immediately abutting upon the sidewalk, apprising the owner of the condition of the sidewalk, instructing the owner to clear, repair, or renew the same. Such notice shall be served in the manner prescribed in Section 9331, Remington’s Revised Statutes of Washington, and shall specify a reasonable time within which cleaning, repairs, or renewal shall be executed by the said owner, and shall state that, in the case the owner fails to do so within the time specified, the officer or department will proceed to do so, and will report to the city council at its next regular meeting or as soon thereafter as possible, the date to be definitely stated, an assessment roll specifying the parcel of land abutting on the portion of the sidewalk so maintained, repaired, or renewed, the cost of the same, the name of the owner if known, and that on said date the council will hear any or all protests against the proposed assessment. (Ord. 304 § 2, 1950).
12.08.030 Assessment.
The city council shall, at the time in the notice designated or at an adjourned time or times, assess the cost of such work against the abutting property in accordance with the benefits derived therefrom, which charge shall become a lien upon said property and shall be collected by due process of law. All property having a frontage upon the sides or margin of any street, lane, square, place, or alley shall be deemed to be abutting property and the same shall be chargeable as provided by this chapter for all costs of maintenance, repairs, and renewal of any form of sidewalk improvement between the street margin and any roadway lying in front of or adjacent to such property. “Sidewalk” includes any and all structures or forms of street improvement included in the space between the street margin and the roadway. (Ord. 304 § 3, 1950).