set forth in this paragraph. Iowa Code § 364.12(2) (emphasis added). In Peffers v. City of Des Moines, this court held that a prior version of this statute, Iowa Code section 364.12(2) (1979), imposed liability on municipalities, rather than abutting property owners, for injuries to pedestrians caused by negligent failure to remove snow and ice from public sidewalks. 299 N.W.2d 675, 678-79 (Iowa 1980). Later, the legislature abrogated the Peffers ruling by amending subsection (b). See 1984 Iowa Acts ch. 1002, § 1; Fritz v. Parkison, 397 N.W.2d 714, 717 n. 1 (Iowa 1986); Busselle v. Doubleday, 486 N.W.2d 45, 47 (Iowa App.1992). Iowa Code section 364.12(2)(b) now imposes liability on the “abutting landowner for failing to use reasonable care in the removal of snow and ice 964, 965 (1897) (<HOLDING>); Ham v. City of Durham, 205 N.C. 107, 108, 170
holding the term sidewalk denotes that portion of the highway that is set apart by dedication ordinance or otherwise for the use of pedestrians holding that sidewalk is that part of a street that has been set aside for use by pedestrians holding that sidewalk is used to designate a portion of highway that has been set aside for pedestrians as distinguished from that which is used by vehicles holding that sidewalk is simply a part of the street set apart for pedestrians holding that in a city or town a sidewalk is that part of a street or highway that is intended or used by pedestrians