Abutting property owners required to keep sidewalks free from obstructions.
Hattiesburg Code of Ordinances § 46-5
in effectSec. 46-5. - Abutting property owners required to keep sidewalks free from obstructions.
Owners of real estate, vacant lots, business houses, residences and all other buildings, or tenants, lessees and agents in possession and control of the same, abutting on sidewalks shall keep such sidewalks in a reasonably safe condition for travel on foot at all times, and free from all obstructions which will in any way impede or interfere with the free and safe use of sidewalks by the public traveling on foot. No broken or unsafe plank, or crack wider than one half inches in plank sidewalks, and no holes, stumps, roots or open ditches and unsafe bridges on any sidewalk shall be permitted.
(Code 1989, § 23-6; Ord. No. 393, § 1, 3-6-1913)
Source: City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ms/hattiesburg/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_CH46STSIOTPUPL_ARTIINGE_S46-5ABPROWREKESIFROBFetched: 11/1/2026
