(a) In order to facilitate the cleaning of certain streets and to expedite the free flow of vehicular traffic, no person shall park a vehicle on the streets designated herein at such times as two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of further snowfall. All vehicles parked prior to the time weather conditions prohibited parking must be removed by the owners or operators thereof. Any vehicle parked in violation of this prohibition shall be removed at the order of the Director of Public Safety and shall subject the owner or operator to the penalty provided in Section 408.01.
(b) The owners or operators of vehicles shall ascertain whether weather conditions require the removal of their vehicles from the streets designated and shall remove all vehicles parked in violation of this section. While the City will make every effort to inform the public of the existence of weather conditions requiring removal of parked vehicles from the streets designated herein, the owners and operators of motor vehicles in these areas shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions, and to remove parked vehicles if the weather conditions are such as require their removal under the provisions of this section.
(c) After two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of further snowfall, the Director shall order the removal of all vehicles parked on the streets designated herein which have not been removed by the owners or operators thereof. Such vehicles shall be removed to a motor vehicle pound as designated by the City Manager. Records shall be kept by the Police Department of all vehicles removed.
(d) The Police Department shall use all available means of disseminating information as to the existence of weather conditions requiring removal of parked motor vehicles from the areas designated. Such notice shall be disseminated to the radio, newspaper and all other available media to the extent feasible. The dissemination of this information, however, shall not relieve owners or operators of motor vehicles from the responsibility of ascertaining the existence of weather conditions requiring the removal of parked motor vehicles from the areas designated.
(e) The streets where parking is prohibited after two inches of snow has fallen and there is a prospect of a further snowfall are as follows: All public thoroughfares within the City, except that vehicles may be parked in the designated downtown business section on Main Street from Forest Street to Eagle Street and on Broadway from Park Street to Depot Street until the Director gives public notice by radio or other means that an emergency exists. When such notice is given, parking may be controlled or prohibited in such exempted areas as ordered by the Director.
(f) Appropriate signs reading “Parking ban on all City streets when snow exceeds two inches” shall be posted at the main thoroughfare entrances to the City.