1. The Mayor or if the Mayor is unavailable the Emergency Management Coordinator, Chief of Police or ranking Police Officer shall have the following powers to regulate traffic and parking temporarily and in time of emergency:
A. In the case of fire, flood, storm or other emergency, to establish temporary traffic and/or parking regulations; and,
B. In the case of emergency or to facilitate public works, or in the conduct of parades, processions or public events, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited areas for periods of not more than 72 hours.
2. Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be enforced by the Police Department in the same manner as permanent regulations. Any person who shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor in violation of any such regulations, or who shall move, remove, destroy, injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give notice of any such regulation, shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this Chapter for a violation of such nature, and, in case of a violation for which no specific penalty is set forth in the law or elsewhere in this Chapter, to a fine of not more than $25 together with costs of prosecution.
(Ord. 553, 5/10/2004, §1)