A.    Whenever the director of public works finds, on the basis of falling snow, sleet or freezing rain, or on the basis of a forecast by the United States Weather Bureau or other meteorological data indicating the threat of snow, sleet or freezing rain, that weather conditions could severely impede vehicular traffic in the city, the director of public works shall declare a snow emergency.

B.    A snow emergency shall automatically go into effect on any part of any snow route on which there has been an accumulation of snow or ice of six inches or more.

C.    The public works director shall cause each declaration of a snow emergency to be publicly announced by means of broadcasts or telecasts from stations with a normal operating range covering the city, and may cause such declaration to be further announced in newspapers of general circulation when feasible.  

(Ord. 1684, 1991.)