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ORDINANCE REGULATING SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE IN THE CITY
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It is, and shall hereafter be, the duty of any person or persons, owning or occupying property on any street in the City of Jonesboro, to build and maintain suitable pavement or sidewalk improvements there along wherever the same may be required or directed to be built and maintained by any ordinance, resolution or order adopted by the City Council.
Any person or persons owning or occupying any property on any street in the City of Jonesboro, who shall fail or refuse to obey any ordinance, resolution or order adopted by the City Council, requiring such owner or occupant to build or maintain any sidewalk, after notice of such ordinance, resolution or order of the said City of Jonesboro, and upon not less than Ten Dollars, and each day that such failure or refusal shall continue after notice is given shall constitute a separate offense.
Where such owner or occupant of property as mentioned in the preceding sections, is a resident of the City of Jonesboro, the Mayor shall issue a written or printed notice over his signature, notifying such owner or occupant as may be affected by any ordinance, resolution, or order of said Council requiring the building or maintaining of any pavement or sidewalk improvements by such owner or occupant, specifying the place and nature of the improvement to be made, and the kind of material to be used by such owner or occupant, and the time within which such improvement is required to be completed, which said notice shall be served upon such owner or occupant, by the Chief of Police, or other officer, and such owner or occupant will be required to begin such improvement as he is required to make within five days after the service of said notice, and to complete the same as ordered by the said City Council. Where such owner resides within the State of Arkansas, but not within the limits of said City, notice of any ordinance, resolution, or order, affecting the property of such owner in this City under the provisions of this ordinance may be served upon such owner by having a sheriff or other officer of any county where such owner may reside, deliver to such owner a copy of such ordinance, resolution or order, and such owner shall begin such improvement as may be required within twenty days after the service of such notice, and complete the same within such time as may be prescribed by the ordinance, order or resolution of the Council of said City. Where such owner is a non-resident of the State of Arkansas, notice may be given such owner by publication of a proper notice of any such ordinance, resolution or order as may affect his property in this City under the provisions of this ordinance, in some newspaper published in said City, for three consecutive weeks and it shall be the duty of such owner to begin such improvement as may be required of him within ten days after the last publication of such notice and complete the same in such time as may be directed by the ordinance, resolution or order of the Council of said City.
Nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to hold that the City has, by the passage of the same, waived the right to have and maintain any civil action or remedy.
Passed and approved this 7th day of December, 1897