(a) Whenever during any period of twelve hours or less, snow falls in the City or in a section thereof, to a depth of three inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the moving of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection and other vital facilities of the City. The emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Administration that snow plowing operations have been completed. The announcement should be made in the same manner as outlined in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Whenever such an emergency exists, the Director of Administration shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations shall become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement to the above named news media and such 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.
During the period of the emergency the Director of Administration may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any or all of the following City streets:
Akron Road | Beall Avenue | Bever Street |
Bowman Street | Buckeye Street | Burbank Road |
Cleveland Road | Columbus Avenue | E. University Street (east of Beall Avenue) |
Emerick Street | Gasche Street | Grant Street |
Graustark Path, between Highland Ave. Winkler Drive | Henrietta (Grant to Quinby) | Henry Street |
High Street | Highland Avenue | Highland Park Road |
Larwill Street | Liberty Street | Madison Avenue |
Market Street | Mechanicsburg Road | North Street |
Northwestern (Westridge to Western) | Oak Hill Road | Old Mansfield Road |
Palmer Street | Pittsburg Avenue | Portage Road |
Quinby Avenue | South Street | Spink Street |
Spruce Street | Vanover Street | Walnut Street |
Wayne Avenue | W. Lincoln-Way (Mansfield Rd.) | Westridge (Oak to Northwestern) |
Winter Street (Cleveland to Gasche) | ||
During the snow emergency no person shall park or cause to be parked, or permit to be parked, or abandon or leave unattended any vehicle of any kind or description upon such 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 ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby.
(c) All sections of this Traffic Code concerning parking fines and impounding of illegally parked vehicles apply to this section.
(Ord. 2022-14. Passed 9-6-22.)