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Salting Your Sidewalk is Illegal?

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Who knew? Just about everyone salts their sidewalks in the winter yet according to Buffalo City Code 413-52 "Methods of removal and disposal locations (of snow)"

C. No person shall use salt, lime or any deleterious substance to remove snow or ice from the sidewalks or paved portion of any street or public place or from the track or tracks of any street surface railroad, except upon curves, switches, turnouts and at street crossings.


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💬 4 comments

  1. heidi ·

    Mostly the disclaimer is to cover for the time lag between adopting a new or revised ordinance, codifying it, and posting it to the website. There's a strange little industry of municipal ordinance codification. My borough has never codified its ordinances and so no one really knows what they are unless you go look at them page by page in the ordinance book since 1871. The boro contracted the job to an outside company and it's about halfway through the codification process. Codification is how the ordinances are organized into chapters and sections out of the historical timeline of adoption, so that they can be made useful and available. I think we're getting them on CD, not online, so my dad & brother will be posting them on the community website, www.blossburg.org. Here are the codified laws of New York :::link:::

    Wellsboro, Pa., (Tioga County seat) has a codified online zoning ordinance. They updated the conditional uses to include natural gas drilling in August, but the site still doesn't have the new info. The site is only usable in IE *grr* :::link:::

  2. tinypliny ·

    All the salt really spoils my shoes.

  3. metalpeter ·

    Question is a home sidewalk you own Public or Private? I think what that means is Ice Melter is ok since it only harms the ice and snow and not sidewalk?

  4. paul ·

    A home sidewalk is actually public right of way. You are responsible for upkeep and stuff but people can use it and do not need permission.

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