Whenever the Village President or, in the absence of the Village President, the Chief of Police determines that an emergency exists or is imminently forecast in the village, or in a section or sections thereof, because of snow, freezing rain, sleet, ice, snowdrifts or other natural phenomena which create hazardous road conditions impeding or likely to impede the free movement of fire, health, police, emergency or other vehicular traffic threatening the safety and welfare of the community, the Village President may declare a snow emergency to exist for a period of 72 hours or less. Said declaration of emergency shall be released to the public information media prior to its effect and shall be posted on the door of the Village Hall. The emergency declaration may be extended or renewed as conditions warrant.
(Prior Code, § 77.001) (Ord. 98-001, passed 1-5-1998; Ord. 09-025, passed 8-3-2009)
Upon the declaration of a snow emergency, the parking, standing or leaving of any vehicles upon the snow emergency streets designated in Schedule VII of Chapter 73 shall be prohibited.
(Prior Code, § 77.004) (Ord. 98-001, passed 1-5-1998) Penalty, see § 72.99
The owners of vehicles parked in violation of a snow emergency declaration shall be responsible for all towing and storage charges and administrative fees unless the location at which the vehicle was parked was not properly marked as a snow emergency route in accordance with this chapter, without regard to whether or not actual notice of the declaration was received by the owner.
(Prior Code, § 77.007) (Ord. 98-001, passed 1-5-1998)