<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>In Pullman it is only a $50 fine and is only considered an infraction. In Moscow the fine is higher, like $1000 in Boise, and it is a misdemeanor. </DIV>
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<DIV>In most cities in Idaho, though, you do not have to remove the snow from city owned property. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 1/22/09, Tom Hansen <I><idahotom@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Tom Hansen <idahotom@hotmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] PR - Citizen Sidewalk Maintenance<BR>To: loren.singh@gmail.com, "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 4:36 PM<BR><BR>
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Courtesy of Chapter 42 (Sidewalk Cleaning) of Title 11 (Streets and Sidewalks) of the City Code of Pullman Washington located at:<BR> <BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/PullmanSnowRemoval" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://tinyurl.com/PullmanSnowRemoval</A><BR> <BR>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>"Chapter 11.42</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><A rel=nofollow><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Sidewalk Cleaning</FONT></STRONG></A></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial>11.42.010 <A href="http://www.pullman-wa.gov/DrawOnePage.aspx?PageID=43#Responsibility of owner." target=_blank rel=nofollow>Responsibility of owner.</A><BR>11.42.020 <A href="http://www.pullman-wa.gov/DrawOnePage.aspx?PageID=43#Removal of snow, ice, debris, dirt, or rock on public sidewalks." target=_blank rel=nofollow>Removal of snow, ice, debris, dirt, or rock on public sidewalks.</A><BR>11.42.030 <A href="http://www.pullman-wa.gov/DrawOnePage.aspx?PageID=43#When to use ashes, sand, sawdust." target=_blank rel=nofollow>When to use ashes, sand, sawdust.</A><BR>11.42.050 <A href="http://www.pullman-wa.gov/DrawOnePage.aspx?PageID=43#Penalties." target=_blank rel=nofollow>Penalties.</A></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial>11.42.010 <A rel=nofollow>Responsibility of owner.</A> The duty, burden, and expense of maintaining and keeping clean and free of debris, accumulation of dirt or rock or snow or ice, or any combination thereof, of a sidewalk along an adjoining property is the <SPAN>responsi</SPAN>­bility of the owner of the property directly abutting upon or adjacent to that portion of the sidewalk for its entire length along the owner's property and for the entire width thereof. (Ord. A-758 §1, 1968).</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial>11.42.020 <A rel=nofollow>Removal of snow, ice, debris, dirt, or rock on public sidewalks.</A> It is unlawful to permit any accumulation of snow, ice, debris, dirt, or rock on public sidewalks. Snow or ice must be removed within eight hours of daylight after such snow or ice has fallen or accumulated thereon. (Ord. 99-39 §6, 1999; Ord. 79-82 §2, 1979).</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial>11.42.030 <A rel=nofollow>When to use ashes, sand, sawdust.</A> If snow and ice on the sidewalk is frozen so hard that it cannot be removed without injury to the pavement, the owner of abutting property, within the time specified in Section 11.42.020, shall strew said area with ashes, sand, sawdust, or some other suitable material and shall as soon thereafter as the weather permits thoroughly clean such area. Any owner shall not be deemed to be in violation of Section 11.42.020 when sand, ashes, sawdust, or other material is strewn on sidewalks to comply with this section. (Ord. 79-82 §3, 1979).</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial>11.42.050 <A rel=nofollow name=Penalties.>Penalties.</A> An owner who fails, neglects, or refuses to remove snow, ice, debris, dirt, or rock, or to strew sidewalks with ashes or other substances as directed in this Chapter, or who violates any provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed to have committed a civil infraction and shall be fined in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation. Each day in which a violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense. In lieu of a court appearance, any person or entity charged with having committed a civil infraction may forfeit to the city the sum of fifty dollars for each such violation. (Ord. 99-39 §7, 1999; Ord. 81-68 §17, 1981; Ord. 79-82 §4, 1979)."</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Seeya round town, Moscow,</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Tom Hansen</DIV>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go to work."</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>- Roy Zimmerman</FONT></DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:24 -0800<BR>From: loren.singh@gmail.com<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] PR - Citizen Sidewalk Maintenance<BR><BR>Do other communities in the Palouse region (e.g., Potlatch, Genesee, Pullman, Colfax, et al.) have similar sidewalk snow removal ordinances?<BR>Or is Moscow the only community with an ordinance?<BR><BR>— Loren Singh<BR></DIV><PRE>=======================================================
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