# Question on Snow Shoveling Liability

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-snow-shoveling-liability/570177>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-snow-shoveling-liability/570177 "2011-02-04T17:41:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-snow-shoveling-liability/570177/41 "2011-02-14T01:13:28Z")

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Minneapolis ordinance 445.

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The gist is, as others said, that you can be charged the cost of snow removal. It’s interesting to peruse the municipal codes. I found, for example, that I can totally rat out my neighbor who annoys me by blocking the sidewalk with the 4 cars in his short driveway. Whether I want that karma or not I haven’t decided.

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