Every deadline, width and penalty here was read on September 23, 2026, off the city's own page or the municipal code that city hosts, and each one is quoted and linked beside the line it supports. Cities amend these ordinances between winters and several publish the deadline on a seasonal page that changes in autumn, so the link beside a line is what governs on the day.

Oregon Sidewalk Snow Removal: Required, With No Deadline

Q: Does snow have to be cleared from the sidewalk or the street in Oregon?

The rules collected here are sidewalk rules, and the great majority of Oregon cities publish a second one about where the snow may go once it has been moved, most often forbidding it on the travelled part of the road. Both come off the same city pages linked below, and the Oregon cities that publish only the second are listed as such rather than folded in with the rest.

Q: Which cities in the country give you the least time?

St. Louis, Santa Fe, Sheridan, where the ordinance allows no hours at all. Above them, 57 of the 150 cities that count in hours give twelve hours or less, 74 give exactly a day, and 18 give more than a day. The widest gap inside a single state is Maine, from four hours to three days.

Nothing

What state law sets

37 states are in the same position

None

Cities publishing an hour count

against 150 nationally

2 of 3

Cities with an ordinance

read on one day

September 23, 2026

Read

municipal code and city pages

The short answer

Oregon cities require the walk cleared and none of them says by when

Oregon has no sidewalk clearing statute at all. Two Oregon cities require the walk to be cleared and name no hour, no time of day and no depth at which the duty starts. That is a real finding rather than a gap in the reading: the ordinance is quoted below and the clock a reader is looking for is not in it. 150 cities elsewhere do publish one, running from no hours at all to three days.

Every Oregon city below publishes somewhere to report a walk that has not been cleared, linked on its own line. The city that publishes the rule is the city that answers questions about it.

Nothing at state level2 of 3 cities with an ordinancenone counting in hours

City by city, in each city’s own words

The 2 Oregon cities that publish an ordinance

Each card below carries what that city published and nothing else: the deadline in its own sentence, the sentence it was read from, and the width, the penalty and the wording about ice where the city printed them. The chip is a band derived from the wording for sorting, not a restatement of it.

Eugene
No clock
The ordinance requires the walk cleared and names no time by which.
City officials interpret section EC 7.375 to mean that property owners should keep sidewalks clear of ice, snow, leaves and other things that could cause someone to fall.
Whose duty it is, as the ordinance puts it
The owner of land abutting a sidewalk
What it says about ice
The city page names ice alongside snow and leaves as things the sidewalk is to be kept clear of.
- Section Eugene Code 7.375 Sidewalk Maintenance
- Published by City of Eugene
The city page reproduces EC 7.375 in full and it sets no hour and no fine: "The owner of land abutting a sidewalk shall maintain the sidewalk and curb in good repair and safe condition." and "The owner shall be liable for injury, damage or loss to person or property caused by the owner's negligent failure to comply with subsection (1) of this section." The same page states where the liability does not sit: "The city shall not be liable for injury, damage or loss to any person or property caused in whole or in part by the defective or dangerous condition of any sidewalk, curb or access connection."
Sidewalk Maintenance & Liability in Ice/Snow, City of Eugene, OR, read September 23, 2026 Where the city takes reports
Portland
No clock
The ordinance requires the walk cleared and names no time by which.
The owners and occupants of land adjacent to any street in Portland are responsible for snow and ice removal from sidewalks abutting or immediately adjacent to such land, notwithstanding any time limitations.
Whose duty it is, as the ordinance puts it
The owners and occupants of land adjacent to any street in Portland
What it says about ice
The section covers snow and ice together and attaches liability rather than a penalty: "Property owners and occupants are liable for any and all damages to any person who is injured or otherwise suffers damage resulting from failure to remove snow and/or ice accumulations."
- Section Portland City Code 17.28.025 Property Owner Responsible for Snow and Ice on Sidewalks
- Published by City of Portland
Portland is the one city here whose code speaks to the clock and then removes it: the duty runs "notwithstanding any time limitations", so the code sets no hour to count. The section carries no fine; its subsection C makes the owner liable to the City instead: "Property owners and occupants are liable to the City for any amounts paid or incurred consequent from claims, judgment or settlement, and for all reasonable investigation costs and attorney fees, resulting from the responsible property owner's or occupant's failure to remove snow and ice accumulations from such sidewalks as imposed by this Code."
17.28.025 Property Owner Responsible for Snow and Ice on Sidewalks, Portland City Code, read September 23, 2026 Where the city takes reports

What Oregon itself did

Oregon has written nothing on this

Nothing in the Oregon statutes was found setting a sidewalk clearing deadline, which leaves the question to the cities below.

That is the national pattern rather than a Oregon quirk. 13 of the 50 legislatures have a statute that touches sidewalk snow at all, 10 of those do nothing but let a city decide, and not one of them sets a deadline. The clock is a municipal ordinance everywhere in the country.

Nothing at state level

No Oregon statute was found on this

has no sidewalk clearing statute at all

Where nothing was found

One Oregon city read publishes no clearing ordinance

Oregon has no statewide shovelling law and the two big cities that do publish a rule attach liability rather than a clock, with Portland's code saying the duty applies notwithstanding any time limitations and Eugene's saying only that the owner shall maintain the sidewalk in safe condition.

Where a city publishes no clearing ordinance, there is no municipal deadline to count against and no municipal penalty behind it, and what stands is the state's own position set out above. Each card below links to the chapter of the code it was read from. Nationally 80 of the 267 cities read are in the same position.

Klamath Falls
No ordinance found
No sidewalk clearing ordinance was found for this city.
- Published by City of Klamath Falls Code Enforcement Department
The only sidewalk snow page in the city's sitemap is an assistance programme, and it frames clearing as a service the city will perform on request rather than a duty it imposes: "Qualifying senior citizens who are residents of the City may request assistance in removal of snow from paved driveways and sidewalks at their homes." and "Absent a call for assistance, Code Enforcement will not automatically dispatch crews." No deadline, no code section and no penalty appears on it.
Senior Snow Removal Program, Klamath Falls, OR, read September 23, 2026 Where the city takes reports

How Oregon compares

The same question in the other forty nine

150 cities nationally count in hours, and the counts run from no hours at all to 72. 74 land on exactly a day, 57 give twelve hours or less, and 18 give more than a day. A further 22 set a time of day or a depth of snow rather than a count of hours at all.

The bar splits those 150 cities by how long they allow, and the table beneath it orders the states by how tight their tightest city is, which is a different ranking from how much snow a state gets.

3 of 150No hours allowed
23 of 150Six hours or less
31 of 150Within twelve hours
75 of 150Within a day
18 of 150More than a day

Fifty states and 267 cities, read September 23, 2026.
State	What the legislature did	What its cities do	With an ordinance	Tightest city
Missouri	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	ImmediatelySt. Louis
Wyoming	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	3 of 3	ImmediatelySheridan
New Mexico	A cross reference	Cities count in hours	1 of 4	ImmediatelySanta Fe
Michigan	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	2hMarquette
Maryland	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	8 of 8	3hAnnapolis
Massachusetts	A city may	Cities count in hours	8 of 8	3hBoston
Pennsylvania	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	3hErie
Virginia	A city may	Cities count in hours	6 of 7	3hRoanoke
Connecticut	A city may	Cities count in hours	8 of 8	4hDanbury
Ohio	A city may	Cities count in hours	8 of 8	4hAthens
New York	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	4hNew York City
Maine	A city may	Cities count in hours	4 of 8	4hWaterville
Vermont	A city may	Cities count in hours	1 of 6	4hWinooski
Rhode Island	A city may	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	5hNewport
Indiana	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	6hWest Lafayette
Nebraska	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	8hFremont
New Jersey	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	8hJersey City
Utah	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	5 of 5	8hPark City
Iowa	Owner duty, no clock	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	10hAmes
Kansas	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	12hSalina
Delaware	Nothing found	Cities count in hours	5 of 5	12hMilford
Washington	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	3 of 4	12hSeattle
California	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	1 of 2	12hSouth Lake Tahoe
North Dakota	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	24hBismarck
Wisconsin	The city clears it	Cities count in hours	7 of 7	24hGreen Bay
Colorado	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	24hAurora
Illinois	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	24hChampaign
Minnesota	A city may	Cities count in hours	6 of 6	24hDuluth
Montana	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	5 of 5	24hBillings
South Dakota	A city may	Cities count in hours	5 of 5	24hWatertown
Oklahoma	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	3 of 7	24hTulsa
West Virginia	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	3 of 4	24hMorgantown
Alaska	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	2 of 3	24hSeward
Idaho	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	2 of 3	24hIdaho Falls
Texas	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	2 of 7	24hAmarillo
Arizona	Nothing at state level	Cities count in hours	1 of 5	24hFlagstaff
Oregon	Nothing at state level	Required, no time named	2 of 3	None published
Arkansas	Nothing at state level	Set by the clock or a depth	1 of 7	None published
Kentucky	Nothing at state level	Set by the clock or a depth	1 of 3	None published
Tennessee	Nothing at state level	Required, no time named	1 of 4	None published
Alabama	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published
Florida	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published
Georgia	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published
Hawaii	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 2	None published
Louisiana	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 6	None published
Mississippi	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published
Nevada	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published
New Hampshire	A city may	No city rule found	0 of 7	None published
North Carolina	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 4	None published
South Carolina	Nothing at state level	No city rule found	0 of 3	None published

Oregon sidewalk snow removal questions

How long do you have to shovel your sidewalk in Oregon?

Does Oregon have a state law about clearing sidewalks?

Does snow have to be cleared from the sidewalk or the street in Oregon?

Which cities in the country give you the least time?

How current is this?

Sidewalk snow removal rules in every state

Oregon ice damsWhat builds at the eaves while the walk is being cleared, and the conditions that put it there.Oregon ground snow loadThe other winter number a city sets and the state usually does not, and who publishes it where.Oregon snowpackWhat is actually on the ground this winter, measured daily, against the years behind it.Oregon frozen pipesThe other thing a long cold spell does to a building, and the temperatures it starts at.

Oregon read September 23, 2026: the municipal code and the city published pages of the 3 cities above. Every deadline, width, penalty and duty above links to the document it was published in and is reproduced in that document’s own wording. An hour count on this site is a sorting key derived from a city’s sentence and never a replacement for it. Councils amend ordinances on their own schedule, so the section linked beside a line is what governs on the day. What a particular property owes, and to whom, is a question for the city that published the ordinance.