Is your sidewalk icy? That’s how you’ll be left if people slip and fall in front of your property.

As a homeowner, you are responsible for clearing snow and salting or gritting the sidewalk in front of your property.

If your property faces a public road, the municipality has usually decided that it is the property owners who are obligated to clear snow and salt or grit the sidewalk. The same applies if you live along a public path.

If your property is on a private shared road or path, you are obligated to clear snow and salt or grit both the carriageway and the sidewalk or path. For the most part, you only need to clear up to the middle of the carriageway, as the homeowner on the opposite side is responsible for the other half of the carriageway.

The law states that you must clear snow "as soon as possible." However, no one expects you to get up in the middle of the night and shovel snow. In most municipalities, the practice is to clear snow by 7:00 AM on weekdays and by 8:00 AM on weekends.

If you do not sufficiently remove the snow, the municipality where you live may issue an order. In extreme cases, the municipality can clear the snow and salt at the property owners' expense.

The rules for snow clearing are outlined in the Road Traffic Act, and each municipality has detailed these rules in their winter regulations, which you can find on the municipality's website.

Source: Louise Heilberg, lawyer at the law firm Bech-Bruun and borger.dk (http://borger.dk)

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