Sidewalk Clearing

Definitions

"Sidewalk": that part of a highway especially adapted to the use of or ordinarily used by pedestrians and includes that part of the highway between the curbline (the edge of the roadway, where there is no curbline) and the adjacent property line, whether or not paved or improved.
 
"Person": any individual, corporation, society, association, partnership or firm and the successor or the heir, executor, administrators or other legal representative of a person

"Occupant": a person who is in physical possession of a property, or who has responsibility for, and control over, the condition of a property, the activities conducted on that property and the persons allowed to enter that property

"Owner": in the case of land, any person who is registered under the Land Titles Act as the owner of land OR
               in the case of property other than land, any person who is in lawful possession thereof.

Bylaw Highlights

Following is a list of the key points of City Bylaw #C-992. Please note that this is in no way a complete replication of the bylaw, but a compilation of the most commonly referenced sections. For the complete bylaw, visit the link at the bottom of this page.

Removal: Every occupant, and in case there is no occupant, then the owner of every house, shop, building, lot, parcel of land or other property and every person having charge or care of any public building abutting on a sidewalk in the City of Grande Prairie, except as listed in Schedule "A" forming part of this by-law, shall remove or cause to be removed and cleared away, snow, ice, dirt, debris or other materials from any sidewalk adjoining the property owned or occupied by them, such removal to be completed within twenty-four (24) hours of the time when the snow, ice, dirt or other obstruction was formed or deposited thereon. This occupant or owner shall also keep such sidewalk free from all debris and waste materials.

Relocation: No person shall remove snow or ice from a sidewalk by causing it to be placed upon the roadway adjacent to such sidewalk except to the extent that removal of the snow and ice to private property is impractical

Sidewalk Injury: No person shall cause any injury to any sidewalk by striking, picking or cutting the same with any shovel, pick, crowbar or other metal instrument whatever whether such person be engaged in removing snow, ice or dirt from such sidewalk or not. 

Full Bylaw Document

For information on road clearing, please see the City's Transportation Services webpage