Sentences with phrase «cleared sidewalk»

After heavy snow fall in the area, he's been clearing sidewalks around an elementary school, explaining to a local news station, «I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves... The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer.

If the ball clears the sidewalk, and the fielder, who is stationed in the street, fails to catch it on the fly, each of its subsequent bounces represents the advance of a base.

This method had the advantage of clearing the sidewalk cracks, but it was very hard to control the cap and it would often roll into the gutter.

They say the two were promptly released and they were trying to clear the sidewalks.

Albany residents and business owners will now have 24 hours to clear their sidewalks of snow before being subject to a fine under a new ordinance that takes effect Dec. 1.

At the top of the Stevenson Street Bridge span in south Buffalo where a group of Habitat members were helping to clear sidewalk snow.

«I haven't been able to pass the stuff about clearing sidewalks, but at least this will address mainly the business owners that have the snow plowed up onto the sidewalk, boxing intersections,» he said.

The Common Council last Thursday approved a local law updating the city's sidewalk snow removal law — which requires property owners to clear sidewalks adjacent to their property after major snowfall — with a provision that will allow property owners who are elderly, infirm or disabled to appeal violation fines if the city is forced to shovel the sidewalk for them.

Yay for clear sidewalks!

But I'm enjoying the clear sidewalks for the first time in a long time and I hope you are too!

Without renters insurance, your failure to clear the sidewalk ruined your life.

But by that time, apart from scaredy - cat politicians, no one will be listening because they will be too busy clearing their sidewalks and wondering how they will feed themselves.

[30]... In Bongiardina, the court framed the issue in terms of whether there was a common law duty on a property owner, in that case a residential homeowner, to clear sidewalks adjacent to the property.

In some more residential towns, the local DPW will clear the sidewalks, but the default rule is that property owners are generally responsible for clearing their own sidewalks and driveways.

When snow builds up, some residents and businesses sometimes fall behind on clearing their sidewalks.

Ultimately, it matters not one bit whether your lease says that you are responsible for clearing sidewalks, or the landlord is responsible for it.

Without renters insurance, your failure to clear the sidewalk ruined your life.

Also keep someone with a snow shovel on «standby» as the City is very diligent about clear sidewalks.

Not exact matches

Lee widened roads, dug canals, cleared slums, erected high - quality public housing estates, herded the satay and chicken - rice vendors cluttering the sidewalks into spacious food courts, cleaned up rivers, planted trees and zealously fined citizens, especially the superstitious who believed in ejecting the «evil spirits» lurking in one's throat, who splattered Singapore's roads with spit.

Now, in addition to carrying groceries and clearing a path on crowded sidewalks, our stroller has become the favorite sleeping spot for our newborn baby.

Among his top priorities for the city are creating a municipal sidewalk program to keep sidewalks clear of snow, creating a worker's cooperative to stabilize the workforce and forging collective relationships with the county and the state.

As a homeowner, he said he would be willing to pay a little extra to have the city clear snow from the sidewalks.

So he's spent the summer looking at what went wrong and devising a way to encourage homeowners to keep sidewalks clear when the inevitable Syracuse snow begins to fall.

PLATTSBURGH — Stella's recent visit got city officials talking about the current sidewalk clearing policy.

Since Syracuse lawmakers handily defeated the idea of fining property owners who don't clear snow from their sidewalks, they've begun discussing a bigger picture solution for snow - filled walkways.

Mayor Bill de Blasio reinforced the message ordering the streets and sidewalks, including food delivery, cleared as of 11 p.m.

«Sidewalks must be cleared for the general public's safety.»

A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 - pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.

The «Surround Vision Birdseye» view afforded a clear view from which to back out the Escalade from my garage, but the tunnel to get to the relatively small opening vexed the Escalade's sensors, to the point where the automatic braking refused to allow me to cross the threshold onto the sidewalk.

A video of the streets of New York City looked slightly blown out, but details in the passing cars and sidewalks were clear.

The risk of someone suing you because the sidewalk wasn't quite perfectly clear — even though it wasn't your responsibility — can be mitigated by your liability coverage.

This can be straightforward, if someone were to slip on the icy sidewalk from which snow had been cleared referenced above; Or this can be less than straightforward, where the injured person might have failed to take a duty of care of their own.

On the other hand, if someone falls in the snow in a public area that you were supposed to clear snow from, such as a sidewalk, the liability coverage could kick in.

Tomorrow has been a «snow day» so all State schools will be closed until the roads are cleared for school buses and the sidewalks cleared for children to walk to school.

Along with the difficulty in breathing and the dust that stings the eyes, people face a constant struggle to keep dust out of homes and to clear doorways and sidewalks of dust and sand.

That means sidewalks must be cleared in winter and any hazardous areas remedied.

And, in the wake of last winter's crippling storms, the Irish government wants to assure its citizens that clearing snow from sidewalks on or near their property won't expose them to liability if passersby slip and fall.

They also asked residents to clear 36 inches from the sidewalk paths six hours after the end of the storm.

[19] The question then becomes: is there a common law duty on the owner of the property to clear snow and ice from public sidewalks adjacent to the property?

[46] What is clear, however, based on s. 2 of the Act, is that there is no general common law duty of care, based on proximity principles, owed by an adjacent property owner or tenant in respect of sidewalks that abut that person's property.

The court explained that clearing snow and ice from sidewalks and fixing potholes is the legal responsibility of the municipality, not the homeowner, subject to two exceptions: 1) if the homeowner is deemed to be an occupier of the sidewalk under the Act by assuming control of it, such as occurred in Bogoroch and Moody; or 2) if the homeowner allows something from his or her property, such as water, to flow off it and onto the sidewalk causing injury to persons.

In Portland, property owners have only 12 hours after a winter storm to clear snow and ice from adjacent sidewalks.

In addition, you may have a case if the sidewalk was not cleared of ice or snow.

Similarly, if a construction project produces debris that lands on a sidewalk or common walking area, some party running the project bears responsibility to clear the debris out of the walkway.

If the liable parties do not keep such a sidewalk clear and someone trips and suffers an injury, they may face a lawsuit.

In Toronto, if you occupy a house, you're required under a by - law [PDF] to clear the snow and ice from the sidewalks beside the house «within 12 hours after any fall of snow, rain or hail has... [more]

The Court went on to maintain the Trial Judge's finding was not based solely on its finding Starbucks made efforts to clear snow and ice from the sidewalk.

In a city of any size, there will be thousands of these laws regulating much of the activity and paraphernalia of everyday life: where and when to park your car, when to clear ice off the sidewalk, what you and your dog may do and where you may do it, whether and how you may ask strangers for money, whether there should be speed bumps on your street, or whether you may open up a night club in that spare room.

If the sidewalk isn't cleared within 24 hours of the warning, the city will clear it and invoice for the work.

Clear the path: Ensure your sidewalks and stairs are free of ice and snow, to make it safer for family and friends that come to visit.