Sec. 204. Excavations—private lots.
All holes, depressions, excavations or other dangerous places
upon private lots that are below the grade of the adjoining street,
shall be properly enclosed with fences or walls, or be filled up by
the owners or occupants of said lots, so as to prevent persons or
animals from falling therein. It shall be the duty of the Mayor
to notify the owner or occupants of premises on which such
dangerous places exist, and require that fences or walls be built
around them, or that they be filled up within such period as he
shall deem that the exigencies of the case may require. In case
of failure to comply with such notification, said owners or occupants
shall be fined $2 for each day such failure shall continue,
and the Mayor may also cause such fencing or filling to be
done at the expense of the city, and the sum so expended, with
twenty per centum thereof added as a penalty, shall be collected
of said owner or occupant as other fines are collected.
