(a) A snow emergency is defined as that time when there has been in or on any of the streets or roads of the Village any accumulation of snow, sleet, hail or ice. When such an accumulation has occurred, the Mayor shall, if in his opinion the accumulation has created hazardous driving conditions, announce and proclaim that a snow emergency exists and then emergency parking regulations hereinafter defined shall thereafter be and remain in effect until such emergency period is by the Mayor proclaimed and announced to be ended.
(b) No person shall park or cause to be parked or permit or suffer to remain parked any vehicle on all Village streets marked in accordance with subsection (d) hereof, during any time or period when a snow emergency condition is declared by the Mayor to be in effect as defined in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) The Mayor or any employee under his direction or any member of the Police Department of the Village shall be authorized and empowered to provide for the removal of any vehicle parked on any of the streets or roads enumerated in subsection (b) hereof during a period of snow emergency as defined above, to such garage or other place the Mayor or other person under his direction or member of the Police Department deems proper. Any costs incurred in such removal or storage shall be paid for by the owner of the vehicle, in addition to any fines or penalties which may be imposed on the owner or operator of the vehicle.
(d) The Mayor shall cause all of the streets and roads enumerated in subsection (b) hereof to be clearly and distinctly marked and identified as snow emergency streets by placing proper signs of sufficient size and legibility to be placed along said streets or roads, or affixed to utility poles on said streets or roads, in sufficient numbers as will in the opinion of the Mayor give proper and adequate notice to persons using said streets and roads that such streets or roads are, in fact, snow emergency thoroughfares.
(Ord. 2-1981. Passed 1-13-81.)
(e) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.