(A) Whenever the County Sheriff, the County Highway Department Supervisor or the County Emergency Management Director or their respective designees find, on the basis of existing conditions of ice, freezing rain, sleet, snow, blowing and drifting snow, high water or damage debris on roadways or other hazardous conditions which may present hazardous situations to the normal operation of motor vehicles on the roadways and that motor vehicle operators need to be aware of said conditions to maintain the safe operation of their motor vehicles, then the Sheriff, Supervisor or EMA Director or their respective designees, on consultation and agreement among themselves, may cause to be issued a transportation warning for parts of or all roadways as determined necessary. Transportation warnings may be issued for hazardous conditions which do not warrant an immediate emergency declaration by the Commissioners.
(B) (1) The Sheriff, Supervisor or EMA Director shall cause each warning issued by them pursuant to this subchapter to be publicly announced by means of broadcasts from radio stations located within and with a normal operating range covering the county.
(2) They may cause the warning to be further announced in newspapers of general circulation when feasible.
(3) Each warning shall describe the situation threatening motor vehicle operation on roadways, the time the warning will become effective and shall specify the roadways or area affected.
(C) Whenever the Sheriff, Supervisor or EMA Director or their designees find that some or all of the conditions which give rise to a transportation warning being issued no longer exist, they may terminate the warning, in whole or in part. Such termination shall be announced in the same manner required to issue the original warning and shall become effective upon announcement.
(D) No unusual restriction or prohibition on the parking of motor vehicles or on the operation of motor vehicles upon roadways shall be imposed or implied under a transportation warning. The warning shall be advisory in nature and not regulatory.
(E) A transportation or snow emergency declared by the Commissioners pursuant to this subchapter will supersede a transportation warning issued for the same causative event and same roadways or area.
(1982 Code, § 47.03) (Ord. passed 2-12-1997)