Twin Falls, ID Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

Section 7-5-1 of the Twin Falls City Code puts sidewalk snow and ice on the property side of the curb. Every owner, tenant or occupant of premises abutting or adjoining any sidewalk or alley in the City of Twin Falls must remove all snow, ice and rubbish from those sidewalks, and all rubbish from the alleys. The duty falls on all three groups named, so a renter and a landlord are both within its reach.

The section prints no hour or day deadline for clearing snow. The duty is stated as a requirement to remove snow, ice and rubbish, with no timetable attached, so this page does not state a number of hours after a storm.

When the duty is ignored, subsection (B) gives the City a self-help remedy. If an owner, tenant or occupant fails or neglects to remove snow or ice from the sidewalk, the City, through its proper officers or employees, can remove it and assess the cost against the adjoining and abutting premises. That assessment becomes a lien on the property. The City Clerk certifies the assessment to the County Assessor or other proper County officer in charge of the assessment rolls, and the amount is placed on the rolls and collected in the same manner as other Municipal taxes.

Section 7-5-4 declares the failure to remove snow, ice and rubbish to be a public nuisance, detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. The former penalty section for the chapter, § 7-5-5, was repealed by Ordinance 2022-014 on August 1, 2022. The civil penalty schedule and the misdemeanor language that Ordinance 2022-014 wrote into § 7-5-2 apply to weeds, grass and rubbish on private property, not to this snow section.