Utah Sidewalk Snow Removal: 8 to 24 Hours

Utah has no sidewalk clearing statute at all. The clock is a city's instead, and five Utah cities count in hours. The tightest is Park City at eight hours and the loosest West Valley City at a day, a gap of 16 hours inside one state. Nationally the deadlines run from no hours at all to three days across 150 cities, and no state legislature anywhere has put a number on it. Five Utah cities publish a count of hours, and each one below is quoted from the ordinance or the city page it was read from. A day is the commonest figure in Utah as it is nationally: 74 of the 150 cities that count in hours land on exactly that.

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

A house on one side of a city line in Utah has eight hours and a house on the other has a day, which is the whole reason a state level answer to this question is no answer. 23 states carry a gap like it, the widest being Maine at 68 hours. Park City writes: “It shall be the duty of a property owner to clear the sidewalks and stairways at the perimeter of his/her property within eight (8) hours from the end of each storm if the sidewalks and stairways do not receive City services and are identified as critical to pedestrian movement in the Park City Snow Removal Guide.”

Two Utah cities print a penalty beside the rule, one of them as a dollar figure and the rest as the class of offence the ordinance creates. Each is reproduced below in the words its own ordinance used. Park City prints a Class "C" misdemeanor: “Any person convicted of a violation of this chapter is guilty of a Class "C" misdemeanor.”

One Utah city sets a width, and Salt Lake City sets at least 42 inches wide. 57 cities nationally publish one; the rest describe the walk rather than measure it, and the city named on each line is the one that reads the result.

The rules collected here are sidewalk rules, and the great majority of Utah 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 Utah cities that publish only the second are listed as such rather than folded in with the rest.

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.

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.