Chelan County, WA Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

45 of the Chelan County Code, the county's snow and ice nuisances code, governs county road right-of-way in unincorporated Chelan County. 090, puts the removal duty on 'each owner of real property,' requiring the full width of any adjacent sidewalk within the county right-of-way to be cleared within twenty-four hours of snow or ice falling or accumulating. 100 creates a rebuttable presumption that the responsible owner is whoever is listed as the record owner on the county tax rolls on the date of the violation, so an absentee owner cannot point to a tenant to avoid a citation.

090 a class 2 civil infraction with a penalty capped at one hundred twenty-five dollars, not including statutory assessments, and it expressly treats each day the sidewalk stays uncleared as a separate violation, so fines can stack through a multi-day storm. Article II of the same chapter separately bars depositing, plowing or pushing snow or ice onto a county road, a road sign, or a right-of-way fire hydrant in a way that obstructs travel or blocks access, with penalties that escalate from a civil infraction on a first offense to a misdemeanor for a third violation within two years. Public Works and the county engineer administer the chapter, which the board of county commissioners last amended by Resolution 2022-76.