Whenever such a snow emergency exists, the Director of Public Safety shall request the cooperation of the local television stations and local media internet websites to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations will become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement. The emergency shall also be announced on the City website. However, the owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with the emergency parking regulations.
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, no person shall park, cause to be parked, permit to be parked or permit to remain parked or to abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon the streets specified in Section 351.13. 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.
Any motor vehicle parked in violation of the prohibitions of this section may be impounded in accordance with the provisions of Section 303.08 at the cost and expense of the owner thereof, provided that in the event the Director of Public Safety authorizes additional emergency equipment to be used, the fees to be charged for towing and storage by authorized agents shall conform to the fees as assessed by the City for the same service.
(Ord. 2022-14. Passed 3-15-22.)