(A) The Board of Trustees may by resolution designate streets or portions of streets within the village as emergency snow routes and shall place appropriate signs, marks, signals or other traffic control devices indicating the existence of said snow emergency routes.
(B) Whenever the Chairperson of the Village Board 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 snow emergency routes be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, the Chairperson of the Village Board may place into effect a parking prohibition on all snow emergency routes by declaring that emergency conditions exist; provided, however, that the provisions of this division (B) shall take effect automatically when conditions set forth in division (C) below take place. 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 prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by declaration of the Chairperson. Nothing in this division (B) shall be construed to permit parking at any time or place where it is forbidden by any other provision of law. In any declaration of emergency conditions, the Chairperson shall state the time that said emergency shall be in effect, and from the time so designated all parking vehicles on snow emergency routes shall be prohibited.
(C) Whenever there may have fallen four or more inches of snow on the streets of the village during any 24-hour period, it shall be unlawful for any automobiles to be parked on any snow emergency route within the village until after such accumulated snow shall have been removed by snow removers provided by the village. Any automobile left parked in violation of this division (C) may be ordered to be removed by appropriate law enforcement officials, and such illegal parking shall constitute cause for the appropriate law enforcement officers to remove said automobile. If such unlawfully parked automobile is not removed, and its presence causes any part of the streets of the village not be plowed clear of snow, the person in violation of this division (C) shall be civilly liable to the village for any added plowing expense necessarily incurred as a result of such unlawful parking, unless the violator shall promptly clean such unplowed area.
(D) 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.
(E) The Chairperson shall cause each declaration of snow emergency made by the Chairperson to be publicly announced by means of broadcast from a local broadcasting station and to be further announced in a newspaper of general circulation when feasible. The Chairperson 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 is feasible.
(F) Whenever the Chairperson shall find that some of the conditions which gave rise to a parking prohibition no longer exists the Chairperson may declare the prohibition terminated in whole or part effective immediately upon announcement or at a later specified date.
(G) Any provision of this section, which becomes effective by declaration of the Chairperson or upon the occurrence of a snow emergency, while temporarily in effect, takes precedent over other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect, except that it shall not take precedent over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles or emergency traffic directions by a police officer.
(Prior Code, § 5-230) Penalty, see § 72.99