Wyoming Sidewalk Snow Removal: 0 to 24 Hours

Wyoming has no sidewalk clearing statute at all. The clock is a city's instead, and two Wyoming cities count in hours. The tightest is Sheridan at no hours at all and the loosest Cheyenne at a day, a gap of 24 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. Two Wyoming 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 Wyoming as it is nationally: 74 of the 150 cities that count in hours land on exactly that.

Nothing in the Wyoming 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 Wyoming has no hours at all 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. Sheridan writes: “The owners, agents and occupants of any house, warehouse, store, tenement house or any other building, and the ground belonging thereto or occupied by them, and the owner and agent of any vacant lot within the city, shall keep the sidewalks, whether paved or not, in front of and adjoining such property, clean, and after any fall of snow, shall cause the snow and all slush and ice to be immediately removed from the sidewalk fronting their respective lot.”

Three Wyoming cities publish a rule letting the city clear the walk and put the cost on the property. That is the commoner enforcement route nationally: 102 of the 187 cities with an ordinance carry one, against 105 that publish a penalty. Sheridan sets it out this way: “If snow, ice or accumulations from abutting property are not removed from sidewalks with reasonable dispatch by the owner or occupant of such abutting property, the same shall be removed by the city, without notice to the property owners or other notice, and the expense of such removal shall be assessed on the property abutting from the front of which such snow, ice or other accumulations shall be removed, and such expense shall be certified and collected as other taxes”

One Wyoming city prints a penalty beside the rule, each as the class of offence the ordinance creates rather than as an amount. Each is reproduced below in the words its own ordinance used. Laramie prints the contractor's fee plus a fee of one hundred dollars or fifty percent of the contractor's fee, whichever is greater: “For all violations of this section, the owner shall be charged the contractor's fee plus a fee of one hundred dollars or fifty percent of the contractor's fee, whichever is greater.”

The rules collected here are sidewalk rules, and the great majority of Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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.