Title 9, MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Any owner of real property who fails to keep the sidewalks abutting or adjoining the property in repair creates or maintains a public nuisance and the owner is liable to the municipality for any damage or injury caused by neglect and responsible for the costs of abating the publi…

If the governing body deems it necessary that any sidewalk be constructed, and after plans and specifications are filed with the finance officer, the governing body shall draft a proposed resolution of necessity for the sidewalk and shall schedule a public hearing on the resoluti…

The notice of hearing on the proposed resolution of necessity shall contain the time and place of the hearing and shall state that the governing body will consider any objections to the proposed resolution by owners of the property abutting or adjoining the sidewalk proposed to b…

In addition to the published notice set forth in § 9-46-2.2 , the governing body, not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the hearing on the proposed resolution, shall cause a copy of the notice of hearing, set forth in § 9-46-2.2 , to be mailed by first class or certi…

If the sidewalk is not constructed in the manner and within the time set forth in the resolution of necessity pursuant to § 9-46-2.1 , the governing body may cause the sidewalk to be constructed and make assessments for the sidewalk pursuant to § 9-46-4.1 . Source: SL 1890, ch 37…

If the governing body, pursuant to § 9-46-2.1 , deems it necessary that a sidewalk be constructed and financed in total or in part by special assessment, the procedures set forth in chapter 9-43 shall be followed. A resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to § 9-46-2.1 shall sat…

For the purposes of this chapter, the term, lot, includes tracts or other parcels of land. Source: SL 2020, ch 30 , § 12.