Sidewalk repairs in Porterville: the local rules

Each rule below links to the section of the Porterville Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Porterville's code says

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If the owner does not repair	The city may do the work and charge the owner, tenant or occupant; unpaid charges can join property taxes. Applies: When the work is done and the charges are not paid within 30 days after demand. § 20-4 · code text if same shall not be paid within thirty (30) days from the date of such demand the city shall pay the contractor from the appropriate city fund the amount due him on his contract for doing such work, and may then proceed to dun the owner, tenant or occupant for the amount of such charges to be paid Unpaid charges may be added to the property's municipal taxes, with the same rules, penalties and charges. Applies: If the city council orders it by resolution. § 20-4 · code text the city council may by resolution order that such unpaid charges be added to and become a part of the municipal taxes against the property affected by such work, payable in the same manner, and subject to all the regulations, penalties and charges as such municipal taxes on real property in the city.
Deadline to repair	At once after written notice. Applies: Notice from the superintendent of streets naming the work required. § 20-2 · code text the owners or occupants to forthwith proceed to do the work necessary to be done
Who must repair it	Owners of lots fronting a public street must keep the sidewalk safe and not interfering with public convenience. Applies: When the street is improved, or the strip between property line and street is kept as park or parking strip. § 20-2.5 · code text The owners of lots or portions of lots fronting on any portion of a public street or place when that street or place is improved or, if and when the area between the property line of the adjacent property and the street line is maintained as a park or parking strip, shall maintain any sidewalk in such condition that the sidewalk will not endanger persons or property A non-owner who creates or keeps a sidewalk condition under a permit or legal right must maintain it. Applies: Conditions created or kept by another person under a permit or right granted by law or city authorities. § 20-2.5 · code text and such persons shall be under a like duty in relation thereto. Owners or occupants must start the needed repair work at once after written notice. Applies: When an improved street, sidewalk or curb is out of repair or awaiting reconstruction and endangers people, property or public convenience. § 20-2 · code text it shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets, or such other person as shall be appointed or delegated by the council or the city manager for that purpose, to require, by notice in writing, to be delivered to them, or their agent personally, or left on the premises, or mailed to their last known address, the owners or occupants to forthwith proceed to do the work necessary to be done

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What are the sidewalk repair rules for homeowners in Porterville?

Porterville's code: Owners of lots fronting a public street must keep the sidewalk safe and not interfering with public convenience. (When the street is improved, or the strip between property line and street is kept as park or parking strip.) (§ 20-2.5); The city may do the work and charge the owner, tenant or occupant; unpaid charges can join property taxes. (When the work is done and the charges are not paid within 30 days after demand.) (§ 20-4).

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