Every Winter I get a flurry of emails from residents asking if it’s really illegal to throw a snowball in the city of Provo. It is, and the law can be found in Provo City Ordinance 9.14.100 Throwing Missiles, which loosely says:
“every person who shall . . . throw stock, stick, snowball or other missile whereby any person shall be hit . . . is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
For some time the state of Utah actually banned the catching of rain water. Catching rain runoff from your roof could get you in serious trouble. However, as a result of last year’s legislative session you may now store up to 2700 gallons of rain water assuming you register with the state here.
Unfortunately, the state legislature did not address a loophole being abused statewide by ski resorts and homeowners alike. Literally thousands of Utahns store hundreds of gallons of un-melted snow on their property without state registration. Amidst the flurry of secret emergency legislative sessions taking place to discuss GRAMA, I have been informed by an anonymous source that today, April 1st, the Utah legislature is expected to close the snow storage loophole by requiring every Utah household with snow upon its property to photgraph it, submit proper registration for its approximate volume, and pay a modest water rights fee.
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Finally the legislature passes a reasonable piece of legislation. I was about ready to give up on this session.
It’s about time the ski resorts start paying their due. I rent so I don’t care if my landlord has to start paying for all the snow he hoards on our property.
Posted by Milda Thompson | 04/01/2011, 2:02 pmI will just pass the cost down to my tenants, so yes you will be paying for it. So even tenants should care about issues.
i.e. more taxes more rent or in this case snow.
Posted by Scott Snowstorage (Landlord) | 04/01/2011, 2:57 pm