Sandy, UT Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

Section 13-1-13 sits in Chapter 13-1, Sandy's chapter of miscellaneous offenses against public peace and property, alongside rules on vagrancy, missiles, public urination, and canal pollution. It requires any owner, occupant, lessee, or other person in control of property abutting a paved sidewalk to remove, or have removed, all hail, snow, or sleet that falls on that sidewalk within 24 hours after the precipitation stops. The clock runs from when the weather event ends, not from when it began, so a multi-day storm doesn't start the 24-hour countdown until the snow or sleet actually stops falling.

The section is limited to paved sidewalks specifically; it doesn't by its terms reach gravel paths or unimproved walkways. A violation is classified as an infraction, the lightest of Sandy's three-tier offense system, which under the city's general sentencing provisions carries no jail exposure and caps fines below what a misdemeanor conviction can draw. The obligation runs to whoever is "in control" of the property, which reaches renters and lessees as well as owners, so a landlord can't necessarily point to a tenant lease to escape responsibility if the sidewalk itself remains uncleared past the deadline.