(a) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the Village or in a section or sections thereof to any measurable depth, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard, impairing transportation, the movement of food, fuel and supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection, and other vital facilities of the City. Such emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Village Administrator that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists the Mayor or Village Administrator shall require the cooperation of the local press and radio station 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 the local radio station or in the newspaper of general circulation published in the Village 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.
(c) During the period of the emergency, the Village Administrator may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any and all the streets of the Village. During the emergency, no person shall park or cause to be parked, or permit to be parked, or permit to remain parked, or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such designated 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.
(Ord. 1154. Passed 4-22-91.)
(d) 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.