06-2022 - Amend 351.27 Parking Regulations - Heavy Snowstorms

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four or more inches of snow accumulates prior to 8:00 a.m. of a specific day and shall continue until plowing operation are complete or until 4:00 p.m. that day, whichever is earlier. is hereby repealed. Section 2. That Section 351.27 Parking Regulations During Emergency, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances reading as follows: 351.27 PARKING REGULATIONS DURING EMERGENCY. (a) Whenever such an emergency exists the Director of Public Safety shall request the cooperation of the local press and radio and television stations to announce the emergency and the time that emergency parking regulations will become effective, which time shall be no sooner than one hour after the first announcement, and such announcement, by two local radio stations, or two local television stations, or in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City, shall constitute notice to the general public of the existence of the emergency. However, the owners and operators of motor vehicles shall have full responsibility to determine existing weather conditions and to comply with the emergency parking regulations. (b) During the period of the emergency, the Director of Public Safety may prohibit the parking of any vehicles upon any or all of the City streets. During the emergency no person shall park or cause to be parked or permit to be parked or permit to remain parked or abandon or leave unattended, any vehicle of any kind or description upon such specified streets. However, vehicles may be parked for a period of not longer than three minutes for actual loading or unloading of passengers or not longer than thirty minutes for actual loading or unloading of property, provided no other ordinance restricting parking as to place or time is violated thereby. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) hereof, an emergency shall exist on streets posted as emergency streets and on streets posted as 8:00 a. m. to 4:00 p.m. emergency streets, without announcement when snow accumulation reaches the proportions as set forth in Section 351.26(b) and (c) and shall continue until such time as specified by Section 351.26(b) and (c). is hereby repealed. Section 3. That new Section 351.26 Snow Emergency and Parking During Heavy Snow Storms, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances is hereby enacted to read as follows: a) On streets posted as emergency snow ban streets, an emergency shall exist without announcement during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City or in a section thereof to a depth of four inches or more. An emergency is automatically declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection, and other vital facilities of the City. Such emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Public Safety that snow plowing operations have been completed. The Director of Public Safety shall post the emergency on the City's website and all social media accounts. (b) On all other streets within the City, the Director of Public safety may declare an emergency whenever four or more inches of snow has fallen within a twenty-