Carrollton, TX Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

Chapter 92's nuisance provisions tie sidewalk ice duties to who caused the hazard rather than to snowfall generally. 60 first makes it unlawful for an owner or occupant to let water under their control collect on or flow across a public street, sidewalk or alley and create a hazardous condition or ice; a violator must reimburse the city for all removal costs, including labor, equipment, ashes, sand or sawdust. 61 then places the removal duty directly on 'every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, or other person having charge of any building or lot abutting upon any public way,' requiring removal of any hazardous condition or ice that formed on the abutting sidewalk from water under that person's control.

62 requires the responsible party to spread ashes, sand, sawdust or similar material 'within a reasonable time' and to thoroughly clean the sidewalk once the weather permits. 63 governs where removed ice may be placed: it must be distributed parallel to the curb in the gutter, or on the parkway strip between curb and sidewalk if one exists, and crosswalks must be left open and ice-free. None of these sections impose a duty to shovel ordinary snowfall that did not come from the resident's own water; the trigger is water under the person's control forming ice or a slick, not weather alone.