§ 6-15. Snow emergency routes.

(a) Parking prohibited during snow emergency.

Whenever the Director of Transportation has declared that an emergency exists due to the covering or partial covering of any of the streets in Baltimore City by snow, sleet, or freezing rain, no vehicle is permitted to park on any of the streets of the City that the Director has designated as "snow emergency routes".

(b) Removal of vehicles.

When a snow emergency has been declared by the Director of Transportation, the Police Commissioner may take possession of and remove any vehicle parked or abandoned so as to obstruct traffic on any street that has been designated as a "snow emergency route".

(c) Assessment of costs.

To defray the cost of removing or towing any such vehicle, the Police Commissioner is hereby authorized to charge and collect:

(1) the sum of $5 for each vehicle so removed, to cover the cost of removal and storage for a period, not exceeding 48 hours; with

(2) an additional charge of $1 for each day or fraction thereof which said vehicle is stored in excess of the first 48 hours said vehicle is impounded,

these charges to be in addition to any fine or other penalty imposed for the violation of any traffic ordinance.