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.