File #: O-24-16    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 5/6/2016 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/25/2016 Final action: 7/25/2016
Title: Snow Emergency Routes - For the purpose of establishing that any person who fails to remove a vehicle from a snow emergency route when Phase II or Phase III of the snow emergency plan is in effect shall be in violation of the City Code and subject to the imposition of a fine.
Sponsors: Michael J. Pantelides
Indexes: Finance Committee, Public Safety Committee, Transportation Board, Transportation Committee
Attachments: 1. O-24-16 Snow Emergency Routes.pdf, 2. O-24-16 Staff Report.pdf, 3. O-24-16 Fiscal Impact.pdf, 4. O-24-16 TB Findings.pdf, 5. O-24-16 Transportation Cmte Proposed Amendments.pdf, 6. O-24-16 SIGNED.pdf

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Snow Emergency Routes - For the purpose of establishing that any person who fails to remove a vehicle from a snow emergency route when Phase II or Phase III of the snow emergency plan is in effect shall be in violation of the City Code and subject to the imposition of a fine.

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE

City of Annapolis

 

Ordinance 24-16 Amended

 

Introduced by: Mayor Pantelides

 

Referred to

Finance Committee

Public Safety Committee

Transportation Committee

Transportation Board

 

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

 

Snow Emergency Routes

 

FOR                     the purpose of establishing that any person who fails to remove a vehicle from a snow emergency route when Phase II or Phase III of the snow emergency plan is in effect shall be in violation of the City Code and subject to the imposition of a fine.

 

BY                     repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2015 Edition

                     12.40.060

 

 

SECTION I:                     BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

 

Chapter 12.40 - SNOW EMERGENCIES

 

Section 12.40.060 - Authority to remove REMOVAL OF PARKED AND stalled vehicles - PENALTIES.

 

A.                     When a snow emergency is in effect, the Police Department may take possession of, remove, tow away and impound any vehicle found NO PERSON SHALL LEAVE ANY VEHICLE parked, stalled, incapable of proceeding under its own power, or left unattended upon any street designated as a snow emergency route. Before the owner may obtain possession of the vehicle, the owner first shall pay the costs of removing the vehicle and any storage charges.

 

B.                     ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A MUNICIPAL INFRACTION AS DEFINED BY CHAPTER 1.20 AND IS SUBJECT TO A FINE AS ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

 

C.                      THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE AUTHORIZED AGENT MAY TAKE POSSESSION OF, REMOVE, TOW AWAY AND IMPOUND ANY VEHICLE FOUND UPON A SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE IN VIOLATION OF PARAGRAPH A. THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE SHALL RECLAIM THE VEHICLE PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF SECTION 12.20.220.

 

 

 

SECTION  II:   AND  BE  IT  FURTHER  ESTABLISHED  AND  ORDAINED  BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.

 

 

 

EXPLANATION

CAPITAL LETTERS indicate matter added to existing law.

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Underlining indicates amendments