Subd. 1. Parking time limited. No vehicles shall be parked continuously at any place on any public street for a period of more than 48 consecutive hours.
Subd. 2. No parking, limited parking and parking by permit only zones. The City Council may, from time to time, by motion or resolution, designate portions of the highways and streets within the city as no parking zones, limited parking zones or parking by permit only zones and shall cause such zones to be marked by appropriate signs. The location of such signs restricting parking shall be prima facie evidence that the City Council has, by proper resolution or motion, authorized the establishment of such no parking, limited parking or parking by permit only zones. The City Administrator/Clerk is authorized to issue permits to residents for parking in zones marked “Parking by Permit Only” upon such terms and conditions as the City Council may determine from time to time, by motion or resolution.
Subd. 3. Hazardous road conditions.
a. Authority to declare emergency. Whenever, in the opinion of the Mayor, an emergency exists in the city or in any section or sections thereof because of snow, freezing rain, sleet, ice, snowdrifts or other phenomena which create or are likely to create hazardous road conditions impeding or likely to impede the free movement of fire, health, police, emergency and other vehicular traffic for the safety and welfare of the community, the Mayor may declare an emergency to exist for a period of 72 hours, and notice thereof shall be given by whatever means are available such as posting signs or by word of mouth.
b. Parking prohibited. Whenever such an emergency is so declared to exist, no vehicles shall be parked or left standing on any street. Upon the declaration of a state of emergency, the Mayor may prohibit, during the emergency, the parking, standing or leaving of any vehicle upon any or all streets in the city.
c. Permitted parking resumed. Parking may be resumed on individual streets as soon as plowing has been completed on that street for the full width and the street has become passable.
Subd. 4. Removal of improperly parked or abandoned vehicles. If any vehicle is parked, abandoned or left standing in violation of the terms of this section, the same may be moved by the city, at the cost and expense of the owner thereof.
Subd. 5. Prohibition of storage or parking of trailers on public or private streets or roads. No trailer, as defined in M.S. § 169.011, Subd. 86, shall be parked on a public or private street or road, unless hitched to the towing motor vehicle by a device approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety.
(Ord. 127, passed 8-24-1981; Am. Ord. 186, passed 6-23-1986; Am. Ord. 543, passed 7-24-2017)