The council of any city of the first or second class or of any incorporated town shall have and is vested with authority and power to require by ordinance any railroad company that has or maintains a passenger depot in the city or incorporated town in this state to construct and to maintain a public footwalk over and across its right-of-way, switches, sidetracks, and main track to its passenger depot from either or both sides of any street abutting on its right-of-way and lying opposite its passenger depot, in cases where walks have already been constructed, or required to be constructed to the right-of-way. The walks are to be uniform in kind and width with the walks with which they connect, and are to designate the width thereof, and the material of which the walk shall be constructed and maintained, and are to provide and assess penalties, fines, and forfeitures for the violation of any such ordinances.