Cross Reference — Designated Snow Routes, Schedule
VI.
[Ord. No. 3211[1] §1, 10-7-2013]
A.
With any winter weather event, parking on City streets becomes problematic
in maintaining efficient and effective snow/ice removal operations.
Parked vehicles slow snow/ice removal operations and create situations
that impede street clearing operations depriving residents and the
traveling public of safe and efficient travel. Similarly, emergency
response will be affected. As such, the following regulations shall
apply to parking on City streets during any winter weather event:
1.
A parking prohibition on all City streets shall automatically go
into effect without any formal declaration when there has been any
accumulation of snow, ice, or other frozen precipitation.
2.
Once in effect, a prohibition under this Chapter shall remain in
effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor or City Administrator,
except that any street which has become substantially clear of snow
and ice for the length of the entire block shall be automatically
excluded from there. However, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed
to permit parking at any time or place where it is forbidden by any
other provision of law.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch.
390, Snow Routes, derived from CC 1988 §§78.600 through
78.630 and §§78.650 through 78.680.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
Whenever a vehicle becomes stalled for any reason during a winter
weather emergency, the person operating the vehicle shall take immediate
action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway. No person
shall abandon or leave his/her vehicle in the roadway regardless of
whether he/she indicates by raising the hood or otherwise that the
vehicle is stalled, except for the purpose of securing assistance
during the actual time necessary to go to a nearby telephone or to
a nearby garage, gasoline station or other place of assistance and
return without delay.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
No person or persons, other than persons employed or under contract
by the City of Lake Saint Louis, engaged in the removal of snow, ice
or other frozen precipitation from driveways, parking lots or sidewalks
shall deposit such snow, ice or other frozen precipitation in the
streets or any public way for vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Nor
shall any person or persons engaged in the removal of snow or ice
allow such snow, ice or other frozen precipitation to be deposited
on or against any fire hydrant. One result of clearing City streets
is that the windrow from the plows pushes snow/ice out to the edges
of the roadway often blocking private driveway or mailbox access.
Property owners and residents clearing this windrow to provide driveway
and mailbox access shall only do so in a manner that does not place
the snow/ice back onto the public street pavement.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
For weather-related emergencies of any kind, the Mayor or City
Administrator may cause additional restrictions or prohibitions to
traffic and parking regulations to be placed into effect by making
a public declaration thereof. Each declaration made by him/her pursuant
to this Chapter is to be publicly announced by means of the City's
Internet website and/or such other media or Internet sites or systems
as the Mayor or City Administrator may find appropriate from time
to time, and by issuing a press release to local media with broadcasts
or telecasts from a station with a normal operating range covering
the City. Each announcement shall describe the action taken by the
Mayor or City Administrator, including the time it became or will
become effective.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
Whenever the Mayor or City Administrator shall find that some
or all of the conditions which give rise to a parking prohibition
emergency or other traffic restrictions in effect pursuant to this
Chapter no longer exist, he/she may declare the prohibitions or emergencies
terminated, in whole or in part, in a manner prescribed by this Chapter
effective immediately upon announcement.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
Any provisions of this Chapter which become effective by declaration
of the Mayor or City Administrator or upon the occurrence of certain
weather conditions shall, while temporarily in effect, take precedence
over other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect; except
that it shall not take precedence over provisions of law relating
to traffic accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles
or emergency traffic directions by a public safety officer.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
A.
The Police Department is hereby authorized to remove or have removed
a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage, to the City's
storage facility or other place of safety when:
1.
The vehicle is parked on a City street while a weather emergency
is in effect.
2.
The vehicle is stalled on a part of City street on which there is
a covering of snow, sleet or ice or on which there is a parking prohibition
in effect and the person who was operating such vehicle does not appear
to be removing it in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
B.
The removal, impounding and release of obstructing vehicles on City
streets shall be by the Lake Saint Louis Police Department in accordance
with all applicable ordinances pertaining thereto.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked
or left in violation of any provision of this Chapter, and is not
removed and impounded as provided for in this Chapter, the officer
finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and any other
applicable information affixed to such vehicle which may identify
its user and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citation
for the driver to answer to the charge against him/her.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
No person shall impede or interfere in any way with a snowplow
or other snow removal vehicle while such snowplow or other snow removal
vehicle is in operation on City streets as an agent of the City.
[Ord. No. 3211 §1, 10-7-2013]
Any person, firm or corporation found to be in violation of
any provision of this Chapter by parking or causing to be parked a
motor vehicle on any street shall be subject to a fine of up to five
hundred dollars ($500.00) or to imprisonment for up to three (3) months
in the St. Charles County Jail, or to both such fine and imprisonment,
as well as to the costs incurred in towing and storing said vehicle.
