Fact or fiction? Boise legitimately requires you to shovels your sidewalks – 107.9 Lite FM

❄ Boise’s last winter storm added an additional 1.3 inches of snow to what was already on the ground

❄ Residents are reminded that municipalities have an ordinance to remove snow for civilians

❄ Penalties may include prison

For a better part of this winter, your shovels and snowfall collect dust in the garage. Deep down, you secretly wanted to stay there until November. Mother Nature has decided to humble us all and stuff us throughout the winter this season in a single month.

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While the strong winds that came with the winter storm that struck the Boyze Zone on February 13, complicated its impact on the movement, this storm actually dropped less snow in the area than the week before it. According to NOWDATA of the National Meteorological Service, the Boise region registers 1.3 inches of new snow.

At our driving home from the station, we saw a number of people go out to Southeast Boys after the worst snow had passed. Looking at them on snow sidewalks, they made us remember a post that would accumulate dozens of comments in Boise Bench Facebook residents a few years ago. This post by a woman named Amanda contained a simple request:

The capable bodysters: This winter runner does not appreciate all the shovels of sidewalks … #shovelyosidewals #endrant

This author is also a runner who recently had a terrible revelation that one of her biggest fears like an adult at the end of the 30s was falling, so we appreciated Amanda’s request. Unfortunately, she was met with some pretty nasty answers like:

Listen, we know that running is not for all and many think that a special brand of stupid is needed to bold conditions, as we have seen with this last storm. However, we were a little surprised by how many people in this topic openly admitted that they were breaking the law.

County Ada and Boyz have regulations requiring civil snow

Read this correctly. In most parts of our listening area, you are required to legally clear snow and ice from sidewalks in front of your home or business. Thehe Ada County Ordinance read:

Each owner or occupant of any property zoned for commercial use or used for commercial purposes located in Ada County or any of its cities, with 9 am, collect on the sidewalks in the neighborhood with such a snow property and keep such sidewalks from it During the day, so to allow the use of such sidewalks in a safe and convenient way.

He continues to tell those who do not own a business:

All other real estate owners or residents hold the sidewalks adjacent to such property, wisely without snow and ice.

Boise rules to remove snow come with serious consequences

Until the ACHD Ordinance, a specific punishment for non -compliance, the one listed in the Boise City code does it. If you have a deliberate violation of the Boyze Snow Removal Policy, you can be found guilty of a violation of a possible penalty of up to $ 1,000, up to six months in the Ada County Prison or a combination of prison and fines.

Do meridian or eagle have rules for snow removal?

In meridian snow or ice on a public sidewalk that admires or adjacent to any private premises is considered to be “A tireless inconvenience.“If you get a notice that you have an uneven inconvenience in your property, you have five days to take care of it. If you do not, you are subject to criminal penalties as a crime. Eagle code Reads similarly.