There is no snow or ice clearing duty in St. Johns County. This is the northeast Florida Atlantic coast, from St. Augustine to Ponte Vedra Beach, where measurable snow effectively never falls, so no county or state law requires sidewalk snow removal.
Snow-clearing ordinances exist to make property owners shovel abutting sidewalks after a storm. St. Johns County has no such rule because it has no snow. Sitting on the Atlantic coast in northeast Florida, the county runs a humid subtropical climate where accumulating snowfall is essentially nonexistent, so neither Florida Statutes nor the county code imposes a snow or ice removal duty. What the county does require is that sidewalks and rights-of-way be kept clear of the hazards that actually occur here: overgrown vegetation, sand, and debris blocking the walk. Those fall under code enforcement and the county's right-of-way maintenance rules, not any winter-weather ordinance.
No snow-clearing violation exists here. Owners who let vegetation, sand, or debris obstruct an abutting public sidewalk can be cited under St. Johns County code enforcement and ordered to clear the right-of-way.
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