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Every owner, occupant and person having the care of any building or lot of land on any street or highway in the compact part of the town shall cause the sidewalk adjoining such building or lot of land whenever the same shall be encumbered with ice to be made safe and convenient by removing the ice therefrom or by covering the same with sand or other suitable substance. Every person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished in accordance with section 1-8 for every day that such sidewalk shall continue unsafe or inconvenient by reason of such ice remaining thereon.
(Code 1967, § 28-11)