Las Cruces has no snow-shoveling ordinance. This is the Chihuahuan Desert at roughly 3,900 feet, where measurable snow is rare and melts fast, so neither city nor New Mexico law imposes a sidewalk snow-removal duty. What owners must keep sidewalks clear of is vegetation and debris.
Snow-clearing ordinances exist to make owners shovel abutting walks after a storm. Las Cruces has none, because it sees very little snow. Sitting in the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico at about 3,900 feet, the city runs a hot desert climate where accumulating snowfall is rare and short-lived, so neither the Municipal Code nor New Mexico state law imposes any snow or ice removal duty on property owners. New Mexico has no statewide snow-removal statute either. The obligation that does apply is keeping sidewalks and rights-of-way clear of the hazards that actually occur here, chiefly overgrown weeds, brush, and debris encroaching on the walk, which Codes Enforcement handles as a nuisance under the Municipal Code.
There is no snow-clearing violation in Las Cruces. Owners who let weeds, brush, or debris obstruct an abutting public sidewalk can be cited by Codes Enforcement as a nuisance and ordered to clear the right-of-way, with fines up to $500.
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