(a) When snow, sleet, freezing rain or other weather conditions cause or appear likely to cause, in the judgment of the Director of Public Safety and the Village Manager, slippery or hazardous conditions which might lead to serious congestion or hazard, the Village Manager may declare a snow emergency. The Village Manager shall also declare the termination of such snow emergency as soon as conditions permit.
(b) “Snow emergency routes” are hereby defined as streets, or portions of streets, designated by official signs on one or both sides thereof, installed by order of the Village Manager. The Village Manager is authorized and directed to designate streets as snow emergency routes, which streets, for the safety or convenience of the public and the accommodation of traffic, should be kept open and clear in times of snow emergency.
(c) During the period of any snow emergency, no vehicle shall be parked on any snow emergency route if special signs are erected indicating that the street is a snow emergency route.
(d) A vehicle parked on a snow emergency route at the time the snow emergency is declared shall be removed by the owner or driver thereof within three hours if such emergency is declared between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. If the emergency is declared between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, such vehicle must be removed by 9:00 a.m. of the following morning. Nothing in this section shall permit any vehicle to be parked in violation of any other parking restriction previously established by ordinance or by erection of signs by order of the Village Manager.
(e) Whoever violates any of the provisions of division (c) or (d) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. In addition, an unattended vehicle parked in violation of such section shall be subject to the removal and impounding provisions of Section 404.07.
(Ord. 79-7. Passed 4-5-79; Ord. 2004-8. Passed 3-1-04.)