It is hereby found and declared to be in the
best interest and welfare of the general public to expedite the removal
of snow, reduce driving hazards and to ensure open roads for the movement
of emergency vehicles during snowstorms, flood, serious fire or other
extreme public emergency.
A.
The Superintendent of Public Works shall prepare and
may from time to time amend a list of village roads which he designates
as snow routes, indicating the name of each said road. Such list and
any amendments thereto shall be filed with the Village Clerk, who
shall cause such list or amendments thereto to be published once in
the official newspaper. Such snow routes shall take effect upon such
publication and shall continue until modified.
B.
The Mayor of the village may declare a state of snow
emergency whenever, in his or her judgment, snow has created dangerous
driving conditions within the village. During the existence of the
snow emergency, no vehicle shall be parked or abandoned upon the snow
routes.
C.
The Department of Public Works shall erect and maintain
appropriate signs at reasonable intervals along the designated snow
routes to provide notice that it is unlawful to park or abandon any
vehicle along a snow route during a snow emergency.
The Mayor of the village may declare a state
of emergency in cases of flood, serious fire or other extreme public
emergency whenever conditions resulting therefrom create a dangerous
driving condition within the village. During the existence of such
emergency, no vehicle shall be parked or abandoned upon that portion
of the public highway or highways affected by the conditions resulting
from flood, serious fire or other extreme public emergency.
Any vehicle parked or abandoned in violation of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed a nuisance and a menace to the safe and proper regulation of traffic and may be removed and impounded as provided in Article VIII of this chapter.
