Everett, MA Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Section 18-144 of the Everett Revised Ordinances governs snow and weather emergencies in the City of Everett, Massachusetts. It starts when a Federal, State or City emergency situation exists, or when impending weather conditions threaten to constitute a traffic hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, and fire, health and police protection. The chief of police announces the emergency, and the parking prohibitions become effective at the time designated.

Once in effect, no driver can stop, stand or park within the limits of the designated traffic arteries. The schedule of streets designated as emergency arteries is on file in the City Clerk's office. Two exceptions are printed: passenger vehicles stopped temporarily during the actual receiving or discharging of passengers, and commercial vehicles stopped temporarily during the actual loading or unloading of materials. Subsection (c) adds a clean-off duty: within forty-eight hours following the termination of a declared snow emergency, the owner of any vehicle parked along a public way within the City of Everett must clean the vehicle of all snow.

Signs control when the artery ban bites. Section 18-173 makes Section 18-144 effective only while a sufficient number of official traffic signs bearing the legend 'TOW ZONE NO PARKING DURING SNOW EMERGENCY' are installed, erected, maintained and located so as to be visible to approaching drivers.

Section 18-168(a) puts towing under the direction of the chief of police, or an officer of the rank of sergeant or higher he designates, for any vehicle parked or standing in such a manner as to impede in any way the plowing or removal of snow or ice, and it lets the city impose liability for the reasonable cost of removal and storage on the owner. Vehicles owned by the Commonwealth, a political subdivision, the United States, or a disabled veteran bearing the distinctive plate are excepted. Section 18-143 separately lets the chief of police declare a weather parking ban in which cars park on the odd-numbered side in odd-numbered years and the even-numbered side in even-numbered years, in effect from November 1st through March 31st, and it does not apply to snow emergency arteries. Section 18-174 requires the police department to keep a record of every tow for one year.