(A) Whenever, during any period of 24 hours or less, snow falls to a depth of two inches or more within the city, more particularly on any streets that are determined from time to time to require the enforcement of this section, an emergency is declared to exist.
(B) Whenever such an emergency exists, the Mayor or the Director of Public Safety shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that the emergency parking regulations will become effective. Such emergency parking regulations shall become effective no sooner than one hour after the first announcement. Such announcement by two local radio stations, or two local television stations, or in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the city, shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Mayor or the Director of Public Safety that snow-plowing operations have been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined above.
(C) All owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with the emergency parking regulations.
(D) During the period of emergency, the Director of Public Safety may prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon any or all of the city streets. No person, during such period of emergency, shall park or cause to be parked, or permit to remain parked, or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle upon such specified streets. However, vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three minutes for the loading or unloading of passengers, or thirty minutes for actual loading or unloading of property or goods, provided that no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(E) Any motor vehicle parked in violation of this section may be impounded or towed away by the police or under the authority of the Police Department, at the cost and expense of the owner of the vehicle.