(a) Snow Emergency Defined: A snow emergency is defined when there has been in or on any of the streets or roads of the City any accumulation of snow, sleet, hail or ice that in the opinion of the City Safety Director constitute a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital services of the City. The Safety Director will announce and proclaim a snow emergency exists and then emergency parking regulations hereinafter defined shall thereafter be and remain in effect until such emergency period is proclaimed and announced to be ended by the Safety Director. The Safety Director will notify Council and will request area radio, television stations and use appropriate social media channels to notify the general public of such citywide parking ban.
(b) No Parking During Snow Emergency. No person shall park or cause to be parked or permit to remain parked any vehicle on a City street, during any time or period when a snow emergency condition is declared by the City Safety Director to be in effect.
(c) Removal of Vehicles Parking During Emergency. The Road Superintendent or any employee under his direction or any member of the Police or Fire Department of the City shall be authorized and empowered to provide for the removal of any vehicle parked on any of the streets or roads enumerated in subsection (b) hereof during a period of snow emergency, to such garage or other place the Road Superintendent or other person under his direction or member of the Police or Fire Department deems proper.
Any costs incurred in such removal or storage shall be paid for by the owner of the vehicle, in addition to any fines or penalties which may be imposed on the owner or operator of the vehicle.
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 2017-19. Passed 3-23-17.)