§ 310-20. Duty of occupant or owner.

The tenant or occupant and, in case there shall be no tenant, the owner of any building or land or any person having the care of any building or land fronting on any highway where there is a sidewalk, within eight hours after the ceasing to fall of any snow, ice or sleet, in the daytime or before 12:00 noon of the following day, if in the interim, shall remove or cause the same to be removed from such sidewalk. If the same cannot wholly be removed such person shall sprinkle it with sand or other proper substance to make the sidewalk safe for travel thereon.