(a) In order to facilitate the cleaning of streets and expedite the free flow of traffic, motor vehicles shall not be parked on any street within the Municipality or within the Businessman’s Downtown Parking Lot at such times as the Village Manager or his or her designee determines that an amount of snow has fallen in the Village requiring the plowing of streets in the Village, or at such time as the National Weather Service determines that two inches of snow has fallen in the Village or an adjacent jurisdiction. All vehicles parked prior to the time weather conditions prohibited parking must be removed by the owners or operators. Any motor vehicle parked in violation of this prohibition shall be removed at the order of the Chief of Police and shall subject the owner or operator to the fines provided herein.
(b) It is the responsibility of the owners or operators of motor vehicles to ascertain whether conditions require the removal of their motor vehicles from the streets and to remove all vehicles parked in violation of this section.
(c) When the Village Manager or his or her designee determines that an amount of snow has fallen in the Village requiring the plowing of streets in the Village, the Chief of Police shall order the removal of all vehicles parked on the streets which have not been removed by the owners or operators. Such vehicles shall be removed to a motor vehicle pound as designated by the Traffic Code. Records shall be kept by the Police Department of all vehicles removed.
(d) Whoever violates this section is subject to the same penalties provided by law for illegal parking in normally regulated streets. In addition, where a car is towed to a motor vehicle pound, the car can be recovered only upon the payment of the towing and/or storage charges.
(e) The Village may use all available means to disseminate information as to the existence of weather conditions requiring removal of parked motor vehicles from the street, including social media, the Village’s public website, radio, television, newspapers or other available media to the extent feasible. The dissemination of this information, or lack thereof, does 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 streets.
(f) The prohibitions in Section 351.15, Snow Emergency Parking, apply to any street located within the Municipal limits of the Village of Johnstown.
(Ord. 08-2018. Passed 3-6-18.)