Bonner County, ID Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Bonner County Revised Code § 2-420 is the county's snow-removal parking rule, and it is one sentence long. It applies to any county street, road or highway within Bonner County and makes it unlawful to park, or leave parked, a vehicle in such a manner as to impede county snow removal crews and their equipment in their operation. The test is whether the parked vehicle gets in the way of the plow crew at work. The section does not list snow emergency routes, alternate-side days, posted hours or a snow depth that starts the rule, so the working standard is obstruction of county crews and equipment.

The sibling rule in section 2-401 A covers vehicles that impede the free flow of vehicle traffic, and section 2-401 B and C enforce posted parking regulations on county roads and county property. Those provisions sit in the same Chapter 4, Regulations For Uses Of County Roads And Rights Of Way, and the penalty and tow sections cover both rules together.

Towing is written for exactly this case. Section 2-430 is titled Removal Of Vehicles Impeding Traffic Or Impeding Snow Removal. A peace officer who finds a vehicle parked in violation of section 2-420 is authorized to remove and tow it away, or cause it to be removed and towed away by any county road crew or commercial towing service. The vehicle goes to a storage garage or compound and is restored to the owner on satisfactory proof of ownership to the sheriff and the storage operator and payment of the towing and storage charges. Impoundment does not bar criminal proceedings for any violation of law on account of which the vehicle was impounded.

Section 2-480 applies the registered-owner presumption to parking violations under the chapter: proof that the vehicle was parked in violation, plus proof that the defendant was its registered owner, is prima facie evidence that the owner parked it. A written lease or rental agreement naming another person is one way to rebut it.