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SNOW EMERGENCY
(A) Whenever the City Commission or any authorized city official finds that falling snow, sleet, or freezing rain will create a condition which makes it necessary that the parking of motor vehicles on snow emergency routes be prohibited, or whenever it is found on the basis of a firm forecast of snow, sleet, or freezing rain that the weather conditions so forecasted may create a condition making it necessary that parking be prohibited, the Commission or city official is authorized to announce the prohibition, to become effective at a time specified by him, her, or it. After the effective time of the prohibition, no person shall park any vehicle or permit any vehicle to remain parked on a snow emergency route. However, if a fall of snow, sleet, or freezing rain occurs after 11:00 p.m. and prior to 6:00 a.m., and the City Commission or any authorized city official has not announced prior to 11:00 p.m., that parking on snow emergency routes is to be prohibited after a specified time, a vehicle parked on a snow emergency route may remain so parked until 7:00 a.m. following the fall.
(B) The prohibition of parking announced by the City Commission or any authorized city official under the authority of this section shall remain in effect until the Commission or city official announces the termination of the snow emergency, in part or in whole, after which the prohibition of parking authorized by this section shall no longer be in effect.
(Prior Code, § 72.35) Penalty, see § 72.99
(A) Whenever the City Commission or any authorized city official shall find that some or all of the conditions which gave rise to the snow emergency prohibition no longer exist, the Commission or city official is authorized to declare the termination of the emergency, in part or in whole, effective immediately on announcement.
(B) If the announcement is made other than between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., it shall be repeated between those hours.
(Prior Code, § 72.36)
(A) Any person receiving a citation for any parking violation in the city shall be deemed to have committed a violation and shall be subject to a criminal fine or civil penalty or both.
(B) The criminal fine shall be $25. The civil penalty shall be $25. Said fine or penalty shall be payable to the city within seven days of the citation’s issuance.
(C) Each day a violation of this chapter continues shall be a separate and distinct offense.
(D) In addition to enforcement of a criminal fine, offenders shall be subject to a civil penalty to be recovered by the city in a civil action in the nature of a debt if the penalty is not paid within the time prescribed above.
(E) This penalty section may be enforced by either or both remedies authorized herein.
(F) This section shall take effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law.
(Prior Code, § 72.99) (Ord. 1, Series 2000, passed 8-10-2000)