(a) The Mayor or his or her designee is hereby authorized to declare an emergency to exist when any of the streets or highways or parts thereof are covered by snow which, in his or her discretion, causes or will cause a condition of serious traffic congestion, such emergency to be known as a snow emergency.
(b) During any snow emergency, no vehicle shall be parked on the following snow emergency streets and routes: Third Street (full length); Fourth Street (full length); High Street (full length); Washington Boulevard (full length); Rural Avenue from Market Street to Campbell Street; Grampian Boulevard (full length); Four Mile Drive from Grampian Boulevard to city line; Almond Street from Washington Boulevard to Grampian Boulevard; Franklin Street (full length); Market Street from Grampian Boulevard to Market Street Bridge; Campbell Street from Rural Avenue to West Third Street; Arch Street/Dewey Avenue (full length); Poplar Street from West Third Street to West Fourth Street; Mulberry Street from Via Bella to Washington Boulevard; Basin Street from Fourth Street to Via Bella; Hepburn Street from Rural Avenue to Via Bella; and Walnut Street from Third Street to Rural Avenue; Penn Street from Grampian Boulevard to East Third Street; Wayne Avenue from Linn Street to Hillside Avenue; Rose Street from High Street to West Third Street; Maynard Street (full length); and Packer Street from Washington Boulevard to Huffman Avenue. The “No Parking” rule on snow emergency routes shall remain in effect for 24 hours after the snow stops or the end of the time of the declared snow emergency, whichever is longer.
(c) During a snow emergency, no motor vehicle shall be driven upon a snow emergency route, when the roadway is covered with ice and snow, unless the vehicle is equipped with at least two mud and snow tires on a driven axle or tire chains on two tires on a driven axle. A
MUD AND SNOW TIRE means: a tire which, when compared with conventional rib-type passenger car tires, has a relatively aggressive tread pattern and is designed primarily to provide additional starting, stopping and driving traction in mud and snow. The tread shall also have ribs, lugs, blocks or buttons, be generally discontinuous and have the following characteristics when inflated:
(1) A substantial portion of the lug, block or rib edges in the tread design shall be at an angle greater than thirty degrees to the tire circumferential centerline.
(2) On at least one side of the tread design, the shoulder lugs shall protrude at least one-half inch in a direction generally perpendicular to the direction of travel.
(3) Tires manufactured on or after 1-1-1976, shall be permanently labeled on at least one sidewall with the words “Mud and Snow” or any contraction using the letters “M” and “S”, such as MS, M/S, M-S, M&S and the like.
(d) During any snow emergency, no vehicle shall be parked on any street in the Central Business District (the area bounded, identified and delineated on the zoning map of the city as enacted by Council on 4-9-1985, and specified in § 1331.02 of the Zoning Code and any future delineation of such district by Council, and generally the area bounded on the north by Little League Boulevard, on the east by Mulberry Street, on the south by Via Bella and on the west by Hepburn Street) from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. This “no parking” rule shall remain in effect for one day after the end of the snow fall or the end of the time of the declared snow emergency, whichever is longer.
(e) It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the provisions of this section.
(f) The Police Department is empowered to tow any vehicle to a city-designated parking pound pursuant to the ordinances of the city, including § 525.01 of the codified ordinances, at the owner’s expense as provided for by the city ordinances.
(g) The Department of Streets shall place signs as to the provisions of this section at the beginning and at appropriate intervals on these designated snow routes within the city.
(Ord. 2868, approved 3-23-1961; Ord. 3094, approved 12-10-1964; Ord. 5623, passed 5-12-1994)