Property Owner Responsibilities: Sidewalks

Chap. 12.05.050 Property Owner(s) Responsibilities
It shall be the duty of the property owner(s) of lots or portions of lots fronting or adjacent to any portion of a public street, avenue, alley, lane, court or place to maintain the sidewalks, including any planting strip or driveway approach, in a safe condition. For sidewalks that will not support or sustain repairs, the adjacent property owner has the duty to fund or perform permanent sidewalk replacement of failed portions of sidewalk, whether or not the City has notified the property owner of the need for such work and regardless of the City performing such work in the past. [Ord. 31-2011 §2]

View the City of Elk Grove’s Sidewalk Maintenance Codes: https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/ElkGrove/html/ElkGrove12/ElkGrove1205.html#12.05.040 

Notice - Section 6: Effective Date and Publication states “This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption. In lieu of publication of the full text of the ordinance within fifteen (15) days after its passage, a summary of the ordinance may be published at least five (5) days prior to and fifteen (15) days after adoption by the City Council and a certified copy shall be posted in the office of the City Clerk, pursuant to GC 36933(c)(1).”