(A) The Mayor may declare a snow emergency when weather conditions exist or threaten to exist that may substantially impede the free flow of traffic on city streets as a result of an accumulation of snow or ice.
(B) No person shall, within two hours after the declaration of a snow emergency by the Mayor, park or cause a vehicle to remain upon any street designated as a snow emergency route.
(C) The following streets are designated as snow emergency routes.
(1) 1st Street from Adams Street to Washington Street.
(2) 2nd Street from Delphi Avenue to west city limits.
(3) 3rd Street from Baldwin Avenue to Western Avenue.
(4) 3rd Street from Delphi Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue.
(5) 4th Street from East Third Street (SR 18) to Norton Avenue.
(6) 9th Street from Alabama Avenue to Nebraska Street.
(7) 14th Street from McClure Street to Nebraska Street.
(8) 29th Street from Adams Street to Washington Street.
(9) 30th Street from Home Avenue to Western Avenue.
(10) 45th Street from Adams Street to Washington Street.
(11) Adams Street from First Street to 38th Street.
(12) Bradford Street from the east city limits to Washington Street.
(13) Delphi Avenue from Third Street to Second Street.
(14) Jeffras Avenue from Baldwin Avenue to Wabash Avenue.
(15) Nebraska Street from Spencer Avenue to South Washington Street.
(16) Spencer Avenue from Miller Avenue to Washington Street.
(17) Wabash Avenue from Baldwin Avenue to Spencer Avenue.
(18) Washington Street from the north city limits to South Western Avenue.
(19) Western Avenue between 2nd Street and 4th Street.
(D) The City Engineer shall cause signs to be erected and maintained on streets designating them as snow emergency routes.
(E) A snow emergency shall remain in effect until canceled by the Mayor.
(F) In addition to the above snow emergency routes, the Mayor may designate any other city street or streets as snow emergency routes after a snow emergency has been declared.
(G) The City Police Department may remove or cause to be removed, at the owner’s expense, any vehicle remaining on a snow emergency route after the declaration of a snow emergency.
(H) Any person who shall park or cause a vehicle to remain on any snow emergency route in violation of this schedule shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and, upon conviction, shall be fined as determined by § 10.99. Each day a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(1985 Code, § 9-4-1-28(i)) (Ord. 21-1978, passed 10-18-1978; Am. Ord. 2-1980, passed 2-19-1980)
(A) The city establishes and designates certain public highways which, as the most frequently traveled, are preferential highways. All other highways intersecting any preferential highway shall be clearly marked at each intersection with stop or yield signs to warn all vehicles using the intersecting highway to stop or yield before crossing the preferential highway, as required by I.C. 9-21-1 et seq.
Intersecting Highway | Preferential Highway | Date Adopted |
Intersecting Highway | Preferential Highway | Date Adopted |
Adams Street | 1st Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 1st Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 2nd Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the east city limits to Delphi Avenue; Delphi Avenue to Second Street; Second Street from Delphi Avenue to west city limits, except Baldwin Avenue | 3rd Street | 6-15-1951 |
All streets | 4th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the west side of Washington Street to the east side of Baldwin Avenue, except at Nebraska Street | 5th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 6th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Branson Street | 6th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 7th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Branson Street | 7th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 8th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Branson Street | 8th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the west side of Baldwin Avenue to the west city limits | 9th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the west side of Nebraska Street to the east side of Baldwin Avenue, except for eastbound lane of Mason Boulevard (now vacated) and for Western Avenue (see four way stops) | 10th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Hendricks Avenue | 12th Street | 12-3-1968 |
All highways from the west city limits to Washington Street | 14th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the east side of Adams Street to Pearl Street | 18th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Home Avenue | 22nd Street | 12-3-1968 |
All highways from the west side of Washington Street to the west city limits, except at Nebraska Street | 26th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Meridian Street | 29th Street | 4-6-1971 |
All highways except Adams, Washington and Nebraska | 30th Street | 6-15-1951 |
Boots Street | 36th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the east city limits to the east side of Western Avenue, except Adams Street and Washington Street | 38th Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the south city limits to the south side of 1st Street, except the following streets: 3rd, 4th, 5th and 30th | Adams Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the south side of 6th Street to the city limits, except the following streets: 26th, 30th and 33rd | Boots Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the east side of Washington Street to east city limits, except at Branson Street | Bradford Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the north side of 18th Street to the south side of Charles Street, except the following streets: 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Bradford | Branson Street | 6-15-1951 |
Chapel Pike | Denver Drive | 11-4-1969 |
Lenfesty | Fairfield | 12-3-1968 |
2nd Street | Flynn Street | 5-19-1970 |
All highways from the north side of 10th Street to the south side of 5th Street | Gallatin Street | 6-15-1951 |
Chapel Pike | Hawthorne Road | 11-4-1969 |
Nelson Street | Hill Street | 6-15-1951 |
2nd Street | Lomas Street | 5-19-1970 |
2nd Street | McClure Street | 5-19-1970 |
All highways from the south side of 4th Street to the north side of 14th Street, except northbound will stop at Railroad Avenue | McClure Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the south side of 18th Street to the north side of 33rd Street, except 30th Street | Meridian Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the north-west side of Washington Street to the southwest side of Wabash Avenue, except the following streets: 1st (see signal list), 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, 14th, 25th and 30th | Nebraska Street | 6-15-1951 |
Chapel Pike | North Drive | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the east side of McClure Street to the east city limits | Railroad Avenue | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the west side of Wabash Avenue to the west city limits, except Baldwin Avenue | Spencer Avenue | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the north side of 26th Street to the south side of 14th Street | Valley Avenue | 6-4-1968 |
All highways | Wabash Avenue | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the south city limits to the north city limits, except 3rd Street and Carey Street (vacated) | Washington Street | 6-15-1951 |
All highways from the north side of Delphi Avenue to the north city limits, except Spencer Avenue | Western Avenue | 6-4-1968 |
(B) The following are designated four way stops.
Streets | Date Adopted |
10th Street and Western Avenue | - - |
29th Street and Waite Street | 12-3-1968 |
33rd Street and Home Avenue | 12-3-1968 |
33rd Street and Lincoln Boulevard | 12-3-1968 |
Bond Avenue and Horton Street | 12-3-1968 |
Bradner Street and Spencer Avenue | 4-6-1971 |
Butler Street and Factory Avenue | 1-2-1968 |
Highland Avenue and River Drive | 6-7-1972 |
(1985 Code, § 9-4-1-34)
Statutory reference:
Stop and yield signs, see I.C. 9-21-4
No person shall park any vehicle on or upon any of the following city streets or portions of city streets.
Street | Side | Location |
Street | Side | Location |
1st Street | Both North | From Boots Street to Branson Street, except on the south side From Adams Street to the first alley west of that intersection, and except on the south side from Boots Street to Nebraska Street From Boots Street to Nebraska Street |
5th Street | North | From Adams Street to Branson Street |
8th Street | South | From Adams Street to McClure Street |
9th Street | North South | From Baldwin Avenue to Nebraska Street From the west city limits to Baldwin Avenue, and from McClure Street to Nebraska Street |
10th Street | Both South | From Baldwin Avenue to Western Avenue; from Boots Street to McClure Street From Boots Street to Western Avenue |
18th Street | North South | From Branson Street to Brownlee From Branson Street to George Street, except Sundays and city holidays |
22nd Street | South | From Home Avenue to Meridian Street |
26th Street | Both South | From Washington Street to west city limits From Adams Street to Washington Street |
31st Street | South | From Adams Street to Gallatin Street |
35th Street | Both | From the west side of Adams Street to the east side of Boots Street |
Adams Street | East West | From 35th Street to 38th Street From 38th Street to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad overpass From 26th Street to 29th Street |
Boots Street | East | From 3rd Street to 6th Street From 10th Street to 11th Street |
Branson Street | East West | From Mississinewa River Bridge to Lincoln Street From 18th Street to Mississinewa River Bridge |
Charles Street | North Both | From Horton Street to Meridian Street From the east right-of-way line of North Branson Street to the first alley east of North Branson Street From Meridian Street to Washington Street |
Factory Avenue | South | From Henderson Street to Western Avenue |
Felton Street | From 33rd Street to 35th Street | |
Goldthwaite Street | South | From Boots Street to Washington Street |
Henderson Street | East | From Factory Avenue to Marion Avenue |
Kem Road | Both | From Manor Drive to Miller Avenue |
Meridian Street | East | From 18th Street to 30th Street |
Miller Avenue | East West | From 9th to 10th Street From a point 60 feet south of 9th Street to 12th Street |
Nebraska Street | East West | From 10th Street to Spencer Avenue From 2nd Street to 4th Street |
Nelson Street | North | From Hill Street to “A” Street |
Norton Avenue | Both | From 2nd Street to 4th Street |
Railroad Avenue | Northeast | From Pearl Street to Waite Street |
Shunk Street | Both | From 3rd Street to 4th Street |
Spencer Avenue | Both | From Wabash Avenue to Washington Street |
Wabash Avenue | Both | From Baldwin Avenue to a point 400 feet south of Quarry Street From Jeffras Avenue to Spencer Avenue |
Washington Street | East West | From 1st Street to Grant Street From the alley south of 9th Street to 10th Street (except Sundays and city holidays) From apex of the curb at 32nd Street to a point 20 feet north of that point |
Western Avenue | Both West | From 14th Street to Kem Road From Kem Road to Spencer Avenue |
(1985 Code, § 9-4-1-114) (Ord. 4-1951, passed 4-17-1951; Am. Ord. 24-1951, passed 12-18-1951; Am. Ord. 17-1952, passed 8-19-1952; Am. Ord. 14-1953, passed 5-17-1953; Am. Ord. 5-1971, passed 4-12-1971; Am. Ord. 9-1973, passed 5-16-1973; Am. Ord. 25-1973, passed 11-21-1973; Am. Ord. 16-1976, passed 8-4-1976; Am. Ord. 32-1976, passed 1-17-1977; Am. Ord. 8-1977, passed 3-16-1977; Am. Ord. 11-1977, passed 4-6-1977; Am. Ord. 27-1977, passed 7-7-1977; Am. Ord. 22-1978, passed 11-22-1978; Am. Ord. 11-1979, passed 7-18-1979)
No person shall park any vehicle on or upon any of the following city streets or portions of city streets for more than the indicated length of time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., except on Sundays and city holidays.
Street | Side | Location | Time Limit |
1st Street | South | From Adams Street to the first alley west of Adams Street | 15 minutes |
2nd Street | From Boots Street to Branson Street | 2 hours | |
5th Street | South | From Boots Street to Branson Street East of Washington Street and west of the alley between Adams Street and Washington Street | 2 hours 2 hours |
6th Street | From Boots Street to Branson Street | 2 hours | |
9th Street | North | From Lenfesty to a point 300 feet east of that intersection, on school days only | From 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
34th Street | Both | From the west side of Adams Street to the east side of Felton Street | 2 hours |
Adams Street | Both | From 1st Street to 6th Street From 24th Street to 25th Street That portion contiguous to County Courthouse Square | 2 hours 2 hours 2 hours |
Boots Street | West | From 1st Street to 5th Street | 2 hours |
Washington Street | Both Both | From 1st Street to 6th Street From 30th Street to 32 Street From 10th Street to 12th Street From 25th Street to 28th Street That portion contiguous to the County Courthouse Square | 2 hours 2 hours 1 hour 2 hours 2 hours |
(1985 Code, § 9-4-1-114(r)) (Ord. 4-1951, passed 4-17-1951; Am. Ord. 17-1952, passed - -; Am. Ord. 14-1953, passed - -; Am. Ord. 27-1977, passed - - Ord. 19-1982, passed - -)
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