Bend, OR Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

020 puts the clearing duty on the owner or person in charge of property improved or unimproved abutting a public sidewalk, not on the City. Subsection (A) bars letting snow sit on the sidewalk longer than the first six hours of daylight after the snow has fallen or otherwise accumulated in commercial areas and one day in all other areas, so a downtown storefront has a same-day, daylight-hours window while a house on a residential street effectively gets until the next day. Subsection (B) applies the identical six-daylight-hour/one-day split to ice, but only if the property owner leaves it bare; the owner can instead cover the ice with a suitable material to assure safe travel and avoid the violation altogether even past the deadline.

35, splits it by property type: a violation is a Class B civil infraction everywhere except on residential property, where it drops to a Class C civil infraction. 00. The section does not require the abutting owner to clear City-plowed windrows left across a sidewalk by street plows, only snow and ice that accumulated on the sidewalk itself, and code enforcement responds to complaints identifying the specific sidewalk segment rather than patrolling every block after a snowfall.