351.17 EMERGENCY PARKING BAN DURING HEAVY SNOW.
(a) Whenever during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City or a part thereof to a depth of two inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the moving of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital facilities of the City. Such emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announcement should be made in the same manner as outlined in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists, 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 emergency parking regulations shall become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement to the above named news media and such announcement to the news media shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. However, the owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with emergency parking regulations.
(c) During the period of the emergency, the Director of Public Safety may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any or all of the City streets. During the emergency it shall be unlawful for any person to park or cause to be parked or permit to be parked, or to abandon or to leave unattended any vehicle of any kind or description upon such streets. However, vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three minutes for actual loading or unloading of passengers or thirty minutes for actual loading or unloading of property, provided that no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(d) All provisions of this Traffic Code concerning parking fines and impounding of illegally parked vehicles apply to this section.
(Ord. 224-1964. Passed 10-26-64.)