There is no clean Ohio statute banning it. The state law people reach for covers tacks, bottles, wire, glass and nails plus a general obstruction clause, and it does not name snow. Every rule that actually bites here is municipal — which means the answer changes at the city line, and one of these cities applies it explicitly to contractors.
Solon is the city that makes the point explicit by naming contractors in its own guidance, and the logic travels. An operator who clears your driveway by putting it in the street is creating a problem in front of your house, on a street the city is going to plow again.
So it is a fair question to ask before you sign: where does the snow go? On a wide suburban lot the answer is usually a corner of the yard and nobody thinks about it. On a narrow Lakewood or Ohio City lot, with the street banned and the neighbor banned, the honest answers narrow to stacking it on your own property until there is no room left — and then hauling it. When snow has to leave the property →
The rule runs one way only, and the cities are candid about it. Solon: “It is nearly impossible for the plow truck drivers to avoid pushing snow back into the driveway apron.” Lakewood: snow left in driveway aprons by the city while plowing is the resident’s responsibility — roughly 15,000 aprons citywide. Mentor: property owners are responsible for sidewalks and driveway aprons.
That asymmetry is not unfair so much as unavoidable, but it does belong in your contract. The plow ridge, and who clears it →
On a tight lot this is the term that causes arguments in February. Ask where it goes before you sign, not after the banks are four feet high.
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