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

City Code section 8-5-1(A) makes it unlawful for the owner, occupant, lessor or agent of any property abutting a paved sidewalk to fail to remove hail, snow or sleet from the entire length and width of that sidewalk within 24 hours after the precipitation stops falling. The duty runs with the property, not just the resident, so landlords and tenants can both be reached by it. Subsection (A) also treats every day the sidewalk stays uncleared as a fresh, separate violation, so a storm left unshoveled for a week can generate seven citations rather than one.

Subsection (B) controls where the snow goes once it is removed: onto private property or into the park strip between the sidewalk and the curb. It is unlawful to push or shovel snow into a drive apron, the gutter or the traveled part of the public right-of-way, since that snow can refreeze and create a hazard for cars and pedestrians. Subsection (C) extends the same private-property storage rule to snow cleared from private parking lots, private streets and private sidewalks: the property owner must identify an on-site storage area and instruct anyone doing the plowing or shoveling, including contractors, not to push snow into the public right-of-way.

West Jordan's general penalty provision, City Code section 1-14B-1, applies because section 8-5-1 does not set its own fine: absent another stated punishment, a Code violation is a class B misdemeanor, and corporate violators face a court fine of up to $5,000 per class B misdemeanor conviction under section 1-14B-1(C).