West Jordan, UT Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)

City Code section 8-5-2(A) commits the city to repairing potentially hazardous curbs, gutters and sidewalks, but only "subject to available funds," and only outside two carve-outs: sidewalks still covered by a contractor's improvement guarantee, and the cost-shifting cases spelled out in subsection (B). Under subsection (B)(1), the city pays the materials and labor for maintaining, repairing or replacing sidewalks, curbs and gutters as the default rule.

Subsection (B)(2) flips that default in two situations. First, if a sidewalk, curb or gutter is defective because of abuse or improper use by the adjacent property owner or that owner's guests and invitees, the property owner pays the materials and labor to fix it, not the city. Second, regardless of who caused the damage, the adjacent property owner always pays the full material and labor cost to repair or replace defective concrete within that owner's own driveway approach and the park strip, the strip of ground between the sidewalk and the curb.

Subsection (C) adds a nonliability clause: the city repairing, maintaining or replacing a sidewalk, curb or gutter is not an admission that any city sidewalk, curb, gutter or other public improvement in the right-of-way was defective or unsafe. The section traces to 2001 Code section 74-1-102 and was last amended by Ordinance 24-15 on May 8, 2024.