The City of DeKalb has established that snow emergency routes are in effect. Starting at 12:00 PM (NOON) today, 1/31/15.
Please move your cars so the snow plow drivers can do their work. Your vehicle could receive a parking ticket/be towed at owner’s expense.
RESIDENTS IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO MOVE THEIR CARS INTO OFF STREET PARKING. DEEP SNOW AND HIGH WINDS MAY RESULT IN CARS BEING PLOWED IN.
51.21 REGULATING AND PROHIBITING PARKING OF MOTOR VEHICLES DURING SNOW ROUTE ACTIVATION; ESTABLISHING SNOW ROUTES; REQUIRING MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES ON ALL CITY STREETS FOLLOWING SNOW ROUTE ACTIVATION. (13-18
Whenever the Director, on the basis of falling snow, sleet, or freezing rain, which may accumulate to two (2″) inches or more, or on the basis of a forecast of snow, sleet, or freezing rain, which may accumulate to two (2″) inches or more, that weather conditions will make it necessary that motor vehicle traffic be expedited and that parking on certain city streets be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, the Director shall put into effect a parking prohibition on parts of, or all Snow Routes as necessary by declaring it in a manner prescribed by this Chapter 51.21.
1. A parking prohibition shall automatically go into effect on any part of any Snow Route on which there has been an accumulation of snow and ice of two (2″) inches or more for one (1) hour or more between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. of any day.
3. Once in effect, a prohibition under this Section shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the Director in accordance with this Chapter 51.21. The one-time snowplowing of a Snow Route does not render the Snow Route inactive; Snow Routes shall remain active, with parking prohibited, until they are deactivated by the Director. While the prohibition is in effect, no person shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any portion of a snow emergency route to which it applies. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to permit parking at any time or place where it is forbidden by any other provision of law.
c) Stalled Vehicle on Snow Emergency Route. Whenever a vehicle becomes stalled for any reason, whether or not in violation of this Chapter 51.21. on any part of a Snow Emergency Route on which there is a covering of snow, sleet or ice or on which there is a parking prohibition in effect, the person operating such vehicle shall take immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway of such Snow Route, into the first cross street which is not a Snow Route. No person shall abandon or leave his vehicle in the roadway of a Snow Route (regardless of whether he indicated, 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. Such person shall also notify the DeKalb Police Department stating his or her name, place of vehicle location, and the vehicle’s license plate number.
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