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ORDINANCE NO, 1707 7 An ordinance relating to the repair, renewal,maintenance, and removal of snow and obstructions from sidewalks, and declaring an emergency. THE CIT'? OF EVE }E TT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: Whenever any street, lane, square, place or alley in the city of Everett shall have been improved by the construc- tion of sidewalk or sidewalks along either or both sides thereof, the duty, burden, and expense of repair, renewal, maintenance, and removal of obstructions from such sidewalk or sidewalks shall devolve upon the property directly abutting upon that side of such street along which the said sidewalk has been constructed, as hereinafter provided„ Whenever in the judgment of the commissioner of public works, or of the commissioner of safety of the city of Everett, the condition of any sidewalk is such as to render the same unfit or unsafe for purposes of public travel, the said commissioners, or either of them, shall serve or cause to be served on the owner of the property immediately abutting upon said portion of said sidewalk, a notice of the condition thereof, instructing the said owner to clean, repair, or renew the said portion of the sidewalk. The notice provided for shall be served by delivery in person to the owner of the property, or his authorized agent, or by leaving a copy of such notice at the home of the owner of authorized agent; , or, if the owner is a nonce resident, by mailing a copy to his last known address; or, if the owner be unknown, or if his address be unknown, then such notice shall be addressed to the general delivery office of the city of Everett. Such notice shall specify a reasonable time within which such cleaning, repairs, or renewal shall be executed by said owner, and shall state that in case the said owner shall fail to do such cleaning or to make such repairs or renewal within the time therein specified, then the commissioner of public works will proceed to clean said sidewalk, or