Marysville, WA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)
Key Facts
- Responsible party
- Abutting property owner
- Duty covers
- Maintenance, repair, renewal
- Trigger
- City notice of unsafe condition
- Non-compliance
- City repairs it, bills a lien
- Enacted
- Ordinance 142, 1906
Summary
Marysville places the duty, cost, and burden of maintaining, repairing, and renewing a public sidewalk on the property directly abutting it, not on the city, under Municipal Code § 12.12.010.
Whenever any street, lane, square, place or alley in the city of Marysville, shall have been improved by the construction of a sidewalk or sidewalks along either or both sides thereof, the duty, burden and expense of maintenance, repairs and renewal of such sidewalk or sidewalks shall devolve upon the property directly abutting upon the side of such street or other public place along which such sidewalk has been constructed as herein provided.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4922912; v1 updated 2026-06-08; through 06-08-2026).
Full Breakdown
Under Marysville Municipal Code § 12.12.010, once a street, lane, square, place, or alley has been improved with a sidewalk, the duty, burden, and expense of maintaining, repairing, and renewing that sidewalk falls on the property directly abutting it. If the director of public works finds a sidewalk unfit or unsafe for travel, MMC § 12.12.020 requires the city to notify the abutting owner and instruct them to clean, repair, or renew it. An owner who ignores that notice faces city-performed repairs billed back as a lien on the property under § 12.12.050.
Violations & Fines
Ignoring a repair notice lets the city perform the work itself and bill the cost back to the owner as a lien on the property under MMC § 12.12.050.
Frequently Asked Questions
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