(a) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City, more particularly on Ridge, State, Broadview, York, Brookpark, Pearl, Snow, Pleasant Valley, West 54th and East Bagley Roads, Ridgewood and Day Drives, and/or any other streets that are determined from time to time to require the enforcement of this section, to a depth of two inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection, and other vital facilities of the City. Such emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Public Safety that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) (1) Whenever such an emergency exists the Director shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations 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, and such announcement, by two local radio stations, or two local television stations, or in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City, shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. 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.
(2) During the period of the emergency, the Director may prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon any or all of the City streets. During the emergency it shall be unlawful for any person to park or cause to be parked or permit to be parked or permit to remain parked or to abandon or to leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such specified streets. 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.
(c) Any motor vehicle parked in violation of this section may be impounded in accordance with the provisions of Sections 303.08 through 303.14 at the cost and expense of the owner thereof, provided that in the event the Director authorizes additional emergency equipment to be used, the fees to be charged for towing and storage by the authorized agents shall conform to the fees as assessed by the City for the same service.
(Ord. 276-63. Passed 12-16-63.)