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ORDINANCE NO. 141 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SIDEWALKS AND SIDEWALK REPAIR The City Council of the City of Pequot Lakes, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, does ordain as follows: Section 1 . All snow, ice, dirt and rubbish remaining on a public sidewalk more than 12 hours after its deposit thereon is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. The owner and the occupantof any property adjacent to such a public sidewalk shall use due diligence to keep such walk safe for pedestrains. No such owner or occupant of any property adjacent to such public sidewalk shall allow snow, ice, dirt or rubbish to remain on the walk longer than 12 hours after its deposit thereon. Section 2. The City of Pequot Lakes, through a designated official, shall remove from such public sidewalks, all snow, ice, dirt and rubbish as soon as possible, beginning 12 hours after any such matter has been deposited thereon, or after the snow has ceased to fall. Section 3. It shall be the duty of a designated official to make such inspections as are necessary to determine that public sidewalks within this municipality are kept in repair and safe for pedestrains. If he finds that any sidewalk abutting on private. property is unsafe and in need of repairs, he shall cause a notice to be served, by registered mail, upon the record owner of the property and the occupant, if the owner does not reside within the municipality or cannot be found therein, ordering such owner to have the sidewalk repaired and made safe within 30 days, and stating that if the owner fails to do so, an official will do so on behalf of this municipality that the expense thereof must be paid by the owner, and that if unpaid it will be made a special assessment against the property concerned. Section 4. Such costs of all snow and ice removal may be recovered, at the discretion of the city council, either by a civil suit agains the owner of the property so charged, or by certifying the cost of such removal to to be collected with taxes in the same manner as special assessments are certified to the county auditor for collection.