Whenever the Mayor or Chief of Police finds, on the basis of existing or forecasted weather conditions, the Mayor or Chief of Police may declare a weather emergency and put into effect a parking prohibition on streets designated as weather emergency routes, which prohibition shall remain in effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor or Chief of Police.
While the weather emergency is in effect, no person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked on any portion of a weather emergency route. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to permit parking at any time or place where it is forbidden by any other provision of laws.
A. 
No person owning or operating a motor vehicle on a weather emergency route during a weather emergency shall allow such vehicle to become stalled because the motor fuel is exhausted or the battery has become inoperative.
B. 
Whenever a vehicle becomes stalled for any reason, whether or not in violation of this section, on any part of a weather emergency route 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 weather emergency route. No person shall abandon or leave a vehicle in the roadway of a weather emergency route, 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 with delay.
Any regulation which becomes effective by declaration of the Mayor or Chief of Police shall, while temporarily in effect, take over other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect, except that it shall not take precedence over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents or emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles.
A. 
Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove or have removed a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or other place of safety (including another place on a street), or to a garage designated by the Police Department, when the vehicle is parked or stalled on a part of a weather emergency route on which a parking prohibition is in effect, or the vehicle is parked in violation of any parking law or regulation or provision of law and is interfering or about to interfere with snow removal or other safety operations.
B. 
No person shall recover any vehicle removed in accordance with this section except as provided herein. Before the owner or person in charge of such vehicle shall be allowed to recover it from the place where it has been placed or impounded, he shall present to a member of the Police Department evidence of his identity and right to possession of the vehicle, shall sign a receipt for its return, shall pay the cost of removal, not to exceed $100 and shall pay any cost of storage accrued, not to exceed $5 for the first day or portion thereof, and $5 for each additional day or portion thereof thereafter.
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This section shall be supplemental to other provisions of law granting authority to remove vehicles.
In any prosecution with regard to a vehicle parked or left in a place or in a condition in violation of any provision of this Article, the operator and/or the registered owner of such vehicle shall be responsible for any violation of this section committed by any person having charge of the vehicle.
[Amended 10-15-2014 by L.L. No. 2-2014]
Every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this article shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 nor less than $60.