(a) Whenever during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City or in a section thereof to a depth of two inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snowstorm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the moving of food and fuel, supplies, medical care, fire, health and public protection and other vital facilities of the City. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, that snowplowing operations have been completed, which announcement should be made in the manner provided in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such emergency exists, the Mayor shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations are to become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement to the above named news media and the announcement to the news media 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 emergency parking regulations.
(c) During the period of the emergency, the Mayor may prohibit the parking of any vehicle upon any or all of the City streets. During the emergency no person shall park or cause or permit to be parked or abandoned or leave unattended any vehicle of any kind or description upon the 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 provision of this Traffic Code or other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(1979 Code 78.09)