(A) Parking prohibition. Whenever the Mayor shall find on the basis of accumulated snow, falling snow, sleet or freezing rain, or on the basis of an official forecast by the United States Weather Bureau of snow, sleet or freezing rain that conditions make it necessary that parking on parts of or on all roadways of the city, including, but not limited to, residential streets, business streets and state highways which pass through the city, be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, the Mayor may put into effect a parking prohibition on parts of or on all city roadways, by declaring a snow emergency which shall permit the Mayor to declare that parking be prohibited on one or both sides of the roadways, designating either the odd or even address numbered side, at his or her discretion. In the declaration the Mayor shall state the date and time at which the parking prohibition shall take effect. The prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor who may then declare that there shall be in effect a parking prohibition on the opposite side of those roadways designated in Chapter 74, Schedule I, which prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by further announcement of the Mayor.
(B) Stalled vehicles. Whenever a motor vehicle becomes stalled for any reason, on any roadway on that side of a street for which there is a parking prohibition in effect, the person operating the vehicle or the owner thereof shall take immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off that side of the roadway, either onto the side of a street for which parking has not been prohibited or to another proper location. No person shall abandon or leave his or her vehicle on that side of a roadway for which parking has been prohibited, except for the purpose of seeking assistance during that actual time necessary to go to a nearby telephone or to a nearby garage, gasoline station or other place of assistance and return without delay.
(C) Notice. The Mayor shall cause each declaration of a snow emergency he or she makes pursuant to this subchapter to be publicly announced by means of broadcast or telecast from broadcasting stations with a normal operating range covering the city, and the Mayor may cause the declaration to be further announced in newspapers of general circulation when feasible. Each announcement shall describe the action taken by the Mayor, including the time it became or will become effective, and shall specify the roadways or areas affected. The Mayor shall make or cause to be made a record of each time and date when any declaration is announced to the public by issuing an executive order as soon as feasible after the declaration of an emergency.
(D) Termination of prohibition. Whenever the Mayor shall find some or all of the conditions which gave rise to a parking prohibition placed in effect pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter no longer exist, he or she may declare the prohibition terminated, in whole or in part, effective immediately upon announcement or at a later specified time.
(E) Precedence. Any provision of this subchapter which becomes effective by declaration of the Mayor upon the occurrence of a snow emergency while temporarily in effect, takes precedence over other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect, except that it shall not take precedence over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles or emergency traffic directions by a police officer.
(F) Mayor or representative. Whenever reference is made to THE MAYOR it is intended that the phrase should mean the MAYOR OR HIS OR HER DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE.
(1998 Code, § 5-307B) (Ord. 703, passed 8-25-1998)