Nicholasville, KY Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

Section 19-9 of the Nicholasville Code is a single sentence with three parts worth reading closely. First, who is covered: any person owning or occupying property in the city, so a tenant in possession carries the duty alongside the owner. Second, what is covered: snow or ice remaining on their sidewalk. Third, the deadline: no longer than twenty-four hours from the time the snow shall fall or the ice becomes frozen. The clock runs from the weather event itself, and the section prints no notice step before the duty attaches.

Section 19-9 names no enforcing officer and prints no penalty of its own. The Code's general penalty applies in that situation: § 1-10(a) makes it unlawful to violate or fail to comply with any provision of the Code, and where no specific penalty is provided, the violation is punished by a fine not exceeding $250 and not less than $10. Section 1-10(b) adds that any violation or condition which constitutes a nuisance may be abated by the city.

Other sidewalk duties sit beside this one in Article I of Chapter 19. Section 19-7 requires all persons owning real estate in the city to keep all sidewalks abutting the property free from grass, weeds and obstructions of all kinds. Section 19-8 directs a police officer who learns that an owner's sidewalk has grown up with grass or weeds, or is in untidy condition from any kind of obstruction or filth, to order it cleared, with a misdemeanor following if the owner fails for five days to comply. Section 19-12 covers the utility strip between the sidewalk and the curb, with a twelve inch limit on weeds, grass and plants. Those sections address grass, weeds, obstruction, filth and vegetation; the snow and ice deadline is the separate twenty-four hour rule in § 19-9.