It is hereby declared to be in the best interest of the public policy and the public safety of the City to regulate and restrict the parking of vehicles on public streets during snow emergencies.
[Amended 10-25-1966 by Ord. No. 71-1996]
As used in this article, certain terms are defined as follows:
Means full chains, strap chains or other types of chains so mounted as to give motor vehicles traction in snow.
Means any precipitation depositing any accumulation on the streets of the City including snow, sleet, hail, ice or freezing rain.
Means a state, declared as herein described under which highway conditions are hazardous and dangerous to the vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Means all streets within the City so designated and marked as hereinafter set forth.
Means tires having treads designed for use in mud or snow and being in such condition as to serve the purpose for which they are designed.
Means all motor vehicles using City streets including all public and private transportation conveyances, trucks and other powered vehicles.
The Director of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, with the approval of the Director of Public Safety, shall designate streets which are heavily traveled and are necessary thoroughfares for the movement of vehicular traffic through the City as "snow emergency routes." Such designation shall take into consideration State highway routes, fire apparatus emergency routes and other commonly traveled streets. Each of such routes shall be posted with suitable signs or markers, not less frequently than once in each direction in one block, which signs shall bear the words "snow emergency routes" and may prohibit parking on such streets. A map of such snow emergency routes shall be filed with the City Clerk and other copies thereof shall be available for public examination in the Departments of Public Safety and Streets and Public Improvements. The Director of Streets and Public Improvements may change such map from time to time, with copies of such changes being entered.
When, in the opinion of the Mayor, the actual or expected precipitation of snow will create hazardous or dangerous highway conditions for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, he is hereby authorized to declare a "snow emergency." He shall immediately inform the public by issuing press releases to all news media. Such snow emergency shall continue in force until the Mayor declares the emergency no longer exists by press releases in the same fashion.
[Amended 10-25-1966 by Ord. No. 71-1966]
Two hours after a snow emergency has been declared and during its existence:
A.
No vehicle shall be parked on a snow emergency route unless signs, posted in accordance with § 528-54 permit certain parking.
B.
Any person who operates a vehicle without chains or snow tires upon any street designated as a snow emergency route when such vehicle becomes stalled or incapable of moving under its own power, or any person who leaves such vehicle unattended shall be in violation of this article and subject to the penalty provided.
C.
Any vehicle parked, stalled, incapable of moving under its own power, or left unattended upon any snow emergency route may be removed or towed away, at the owner's expense, to any other location by the Police Department or by persons authorized by such Department to do so.
No person shall throw, shovel, cast or otherwise move, place, pile, deposit or dump snow or ice removed from sidewalks, driveways or other areas into the street or public highway, and no person, when the cartway of the street or highway is cleared or partially cleared, shall throw or place any snow or other accumulation in the cleared cartway or passageway area.