(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MAYOR. The Mayor of the City of Ravenna, Nebraska, or his or her designed representative.
(`77 Code, § 5-501)
(B) Whenever the Mayor shall find, on the basis of falling snow, sleet, or freezing rain or on the basis of an official forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau of snow, sleet or freezing rain, that weather conditions will make it necessary that motor vehicle traffic be expedited and that parking on municipal snow emergency routes be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, the Mayor may place into effect a parking prohibition on all snow emergency routes by declaring that emergency conditions exist. In such declaration of emergency conditions, the Mayor shall state the time that the emergency shall be in effect and from the time so designated, all parking of vehicles on snow emergency routes shall be prohibited. While the prohibition is in effect, no person shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any portion of a snow emergency route. Once in effect, the parking prohibition imposed under this section shall remain in effect until terminated by declaration of the Mayor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit parking any time or place where it is forbidden by any other provision of law.
(`77 Code, § 5-503)
(C) (1) The Mayor shall cause each declaration of a snow emergency made by him or her, pursuant hereto, to be publicly announced by means of posting a notice in each of three public places in the municipality, and he or she may cause such declaration to be further announced in a newspaper of general circulation when feasible. Each announcement shall describe the action taken by the Mayor, including the time it became or will become effective, and shall specify the streets or areas affected. The Mayor shall make or cause to be made a record of each time and date when any declaration is announced to the public by issuing an executive order as soon after the declaration of an emergency as is feasible.
(2) Whenever the Mayor shall find that some or all of the conditions which gave rise to a parking prohibition placed in effect pursuant to the provisions of this section no longer exist, he or she may declare the prohibition terminated, in whole or in part, effective immediately upon announcement or at a later specified time.
(`77 Code, § 5-504)
(D) (1) Whenever the Mayor shall find, on the basis of accumulated snow, that conditions make it necessary that parking on residential streets, be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, he or she may put into effect a parking prohibition on parts of or on all residential streets by declaring that parking be prohibited on one side of the residential streets, designating either the odd or even address numbered side, at his or her discretion.
(2) In such declaration, the Mayor shall state the date and time on which such parking prohibition shall take effect.
(3) The prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor who may then declare that there shall be in effect a parking prohibition on the opposite side of those residential streets designated above, which prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor.
(`77 Code, § 5-505)
(E) (1) Whenever an emergency has been declared, no person operating a motor vehicle on a snow emergency route shall allow such vehicle to become stalled or stuck.
(2) No person operating a motor vehicle on a snow emergency route during the declaration of emergency snow conditions shall allow such vehicle to become stalled because the motor fuel supply is exhausted or the battery has become inoperative.
(`77 Code, § 5-506)
(F) (1) Whenever a motor vehicle becomes stalled for any reason on any snow emergency route on which there is a parking prohibition in effect, the person operating such vehicle shall take immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway of such snow emergency route, either onto the nearest cross street which is not a snow emergency route, or other appropriate location.
(2) No person shall abandon or leave his or her vehicle in the roadway of a snow emergency route, except for the purpose of securing assistance during the actual time necessary to go to a nearby telephone or to a nearby garage, gasoline station, or other place of assistance and return without delay.
(`77 Code, § 5-507)
(G) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove or have removed a vehicle from a street to another place or location on a street or to a lot, garage, or similar facility designated by the Police Department when:
(1) The vehicle is parked on a snow emergency route on which a parking prohibition is in effect; or
(2) The vehicle is stalled on a snow emergency route on which there is a parking prohibition in effect and the person who is operating the vehicle does not appear to be removing it in accordance with the provisions of this section; or
(3) The vehicle is parked on any street in violation of any parking prohibition or provision of law contained in this section and is interfering or about to interfere with snow removal operations.
(`77 Code, § 5-508)
(H) Any provision of this section which becomes effective by declaration of the Mayor upon the occurrence of a snow emergency, while temporarily in effect, takes precedence over other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect, except that it shall not take precedence over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles, or emergency traffic directions by a police officer.
(`77 Code, § 5-509) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Authority to regulate during snow emergencies, see Neb. RS 17-557