A snow emergency due to accumulated snow of a depth of three (3) inches or more upon the public streets of the Township shall exist when so declared by the Township Manager or his duly authorized representative. The emergency shall cease to exist as a result of the removal of the snow from those streets when so declared by the Township Manager or his duly authorized representative. In the event that a snow emergency is declared between the hours of 10:00 PM and 8:00 AM, then all parking restrictions provided for hereafter shall not become effective until 8:00 AM.

Immediate notice of the existence of a snow emergency and of the end of a snow emergency shall be given to the public by the Township Manager or his duly authorized representative by means of appropriate announcements through available media sources.

The existence of snow emergency routes was established in Ordinance No. 1843 in December of 1978. The snow emergency routes and restrictions are listed in Chapter 145-62. These regulations are as follows:

1. No person, firm or corporation shall park a motor vehicle or allow a motor vehicle to remain parked on either side of a snow emergency route during a snow emergency.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to obstruct or impede traffic on any street designated as a snow emergency route during a snow emergency by reason of his/her failure to have the vehicle operated by him/her equipped with snow tires or chains.

3. The designated portions of the following public streets are hereby declared to be snow emergency routes:

Official signs designating Snow Emergency Routes will be of a permanent nature and will be located at least at the beginning and end of each Snow Emergency Route and with no greater distance between such signs than one quarter of a mile.

In addition to the Snow Emergency Routes the ordinance established parking restrictions on one side of certain streets within the Township. Chapter 145-63 entitled, "Parking Prohibited on Certain Sides", is outlined as follows:

On the following public streets, no person, firm or corporation shall park a motor vehicle or allow a motor vehicle to remain parked upon the side of such street as indicated below during a Snow Emergency:

Official signs of a permanent nature will be posted along the above mentioned sides of such streets so as to give reasonable notice of such restrictions bearing the legend, "No Parking This Side During Snow Emergency".

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