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I read an article that said the residents in a certain community had to shovel their sidewalks after snow storms. I live in Alabama, so I have not heard of such laws. What is the point on such a requirement??
Thank you.
Thank you.
Some states also have laws that your car must be fully cleaned off, nothing like a big ice plate flying off the roof of the car in front of you at 70 mph on the highway, but again more of a reason to stop and check you out kind of law.
The Shop
In Michigan there is no state law. Only city ordinances.
When I was 21 I worked in a warehouse and part of my job was to clear the snow. There was a city ordinance that said any business must have its sidewalk cleared within 48 hours. Its a quick money grab so they would drive around and issue citations after a storm.
If you don't clear your driveway or the sidewalk in front of your house you just look like a lazy inconsiderate pile of shit.
a few years ago we bought a commercial property that had 300 feet of sidewalk out the north side and south side, but there was a neighborhood to the direct west and the north road was in a neighborhood. we had to shovel both sidewalks, even though there was a privacy fence between the commercial property and the neighborhood. we didn't have access to the north road, so we had to drive around the block into the neighborhood to shovel that part of the sidewalk. not only that but the north sidewalk was directly behind the fence, so it iced up like a bitch. it was a total pain in the dick.
Here in Denver the law states you have 24 hours after the snow stops to clear the sidewalk in front of your house.
Businesses have only 4 hours - and I think it is a good law. It can get really dangerous in places that aren't shoveled.
I usually like to do it immediately after a snow when it is still soft and fluffy. Much easier and safer.
The longer you wait the harder it is to remove and it gets really dangerous once it turns to hard ice!
Then you can't get rid of it until it melts on it's own.
Remove the snow quickly and there can be 10 inches everywhere, but the sidewalks will clear up in literally a few minutes under the heat of the sun. But the snow will stay on the grass for weeks sometimes.
I've had the mailman obviously skip my house because the sidewalk wasn't shoveled. It's not safe!
Example
Fast and easy...
we're supposed to get snow tonight and a lot in the mountains. me and my dad are building new YZF snowbikes, hoping to put the finishing touches on them tonight.
also, most places around my town are no parking on the street in the winter. you got some balls parking the Ridgeline out there bro
Edit: I just saw your comment about no parking on the street during the winter. That would never work around here as almost everybody parks on the street. Most of the 'garages' are actually 100 year old carriage houses located on the alleys in central Denver. That's the wife's car though, I park my truck in the alley parking spot. But our vehicles are too tall for the 105 year old 'garage'.
Pit Row
Stay off my side walk!
Yes, you guy that didn't get enough hugs from his two dads guy you, we have sidewalks. They don't look like these in your state:
Kdx your mailman should wear chainmail and a gas mask.
Duty of male to shovel snow on highway
34 (1) All physically fit male persons between the ages of sixteen and sixty, residing within every such section or division, are required to work with their shovels on the highways during the winter whenever the highways become impassable from snow, but persons actually in regular attendance at any public school are not, during school hours, required to work under this Section.
(2) If a person does not attend for work in accordance with subsection (1), the overseer shall order him to attend for that work either forthwith or at any time or hour of the day that the overseer designates.
(3) Every person ordered to attend for work shall
(a) attend for work and work as aforesaid;
(b) provide a competent person to work and who shall work in his place; or
(c) pay to the overseer on the day on which he is ordered to work a tax of five dollars for the use of the municipality.
(4) The overseer shall expend any sum paid to him under clause (c) of subsection (3) for the purpose of removing the snow from the highway and making it passable, and shall account to the municipality for all sums so received and expended.
(5) An order of the overseer shall be sufficiently communicated if delivered or given, verbally or in writing, at the usual place of residence of the person, to some inmate thereof apparently not under sixteen years of age.
(6) If any person ordered under this Section to attend for work fails to comply with this Section, he is liable to a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for not more than ten days. R.S., c. 371, s. 34.
Of course, that never happens and is an ancient section of the Act, but it is still there - Acts are pretty slow to get revised here sometimes....
"You must shovel snow as soon as possible after it falls. Snow that falls between the hours of 7:00 am and 7:00 pm must be removed no later than 10:00 pm. Snow that falls between the hours of 7:00 pm and 7:00 am must be removed by 10:00 am."
What gets me is that so many people don't follow it. It makes it pretty tricky to walk around. What I also don't get is the city doesn't clear all its sidewalks. Outside public parks and offices they do, but what about the sidewalk over a river bridge near my house that is sloped and lethal at the moment?
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