A. 
The following words and terms, as used in this article, shall have the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto:
EMERGENCY DIRECTOR
The Borough Mayor or in his absence or incapacity, the President of Council or, in his absence or incapacity, the Vice President of Council.
[Amended 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
EMERGENCY PURPOSES
The use of a motor vehicle to transport medical personnel, fire, police, utilities and other persons otherwise stranded by the storm.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
SNOW EMERGENCY
An actual or threatened state of highway conditions caused by the accumulation on the streets of any amount of snow that is hazardous and dangerous to vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
VEHICLE
Any self-propelled motorized vehicle using any street or highway in the Borough.
B. 
In this article, the masculine shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural, and the plural shall include the singular.
A. 
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XVI (§ 163-69), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as permanent snow emergency streets.
B. 
Temporary snow emergency streets shall be designated by the Emergency Director at any time during a snow emergency by announcement over local radio stations and by posting with temporary signs, such temporary snow emergency streets to have such temporary emergency status beginning 24 hours after the applicable radio announcement or 24 hours after the posting thereof, whichever shall be later.
[Amended 2-21-2008 by Ord. No. 855]
A. 
A snow emergency will automatically go into effect when a winter storm warning or heavy snow warning is issued by the National Weather Service. The snow emergency shall stay in full effect until the National Weather Service expires the warning notice.
B. 
The Snow Emergency Director reserves the right to extend the snow emergency after the National Weather Service terminates the warning notice to allow for the removal of accumulated snow piles within the Borough. The Snow Emergency Director is only required to remind the citizens of a snow emergency in effect by announcement over the local radio station if the emergency is extended beyond the expiration of the warning notice issued by the National Weather Service.
The following regulations shall apply during snow emergencies:
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked on any permanent snow emergency street or on any temporary emergency street posted as such. The fine shall be $25 for each twenty-four-hour period the vehicle is in violation.
[Amended 9-26-2005 by Ord. No. 834]
B. 
Any vehicle that shall become stalled, incapable of moving under its own power or left unattended upon any traffic lane of any snow emergency street shall be deemed to be operated and/or parked in violation of this article, and the owner or operator of such vehicle shall be guilty of a violation of this article.
C. 
Borough authorities may remove, by any means authorized by law, any vehicle parked in violation of this article or stalled or otherwise inoperative upon any snow emergency street, as herein prohibited, which is constituting an extreme hazard to public safety and/or which jeopardizes the orderly performance of snow emergency functions by the Borough's Public Works Section.
D. 
It shall be unlawful at any time for any person to operate any motor vehicle on any such snow emergency route or street, unless that vehicle is for emergency purposes. Said prohibition shall apply to all streets of the borough and the owner of the vehicle shall be guilty of a violation of this article.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770; amended 9-26-2005 by Ord. No. 834]
E. 
This chapter shall not prevent the operation of any motor vehicle or tractor by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any of its agents or employees who are involved in snow removal operations.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
F. 
This chapter shall not prohibit any individual from using the highway if it is lawful to do so during a snow emergency declared by the Mayor of the Borough.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
G. 
This chapter shall not prohibit any person or corporation that is a licensed contractor for purposes of snow removal in Sayre Borough and has proper vehicle insurance, liability insurance, proper motor vehicle license and a properly inspected vehicle who has previously submitted the snow routes in which it intends to operate from being allowed by the Mayor to operate to remove snow during a declared snow emergency.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
H. 
Said licensee or motor vehicle operator shall apply to the Mayor of the Borough for the permission to operate during a snow emergency, and said Mayor's approval shall be contingent upon the requirements set forth in the above-mentioned subsection. In the event that the Mayor rejects the application of a licensed contractor to operate during a snow emergency, the applicant shall have a right to appeal said decision of the Borough Council, which shall vote thereon after a hearing is afforded to the licensed contractor.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
[Amended 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $300, plus costs of prosecution and, in addition, any other costs incurred by the Borough in removal of said vehicle, and in default of payment of such fines and costs, to imprisonment in accordance with the provisions of law.