Grand Forks, ND Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Grand Forks City Code section 8-0817 lets the superintendent of streets declare a snow emergency whenever snow, freezing rain, sleet, ice or snowdrifts create hazardous road conditions, after notifying the chief of police. The declaration triggers a 48-hour parking ban on the city's designated snow emergency routes, and a separate 24-hour ban on every other street, avenue and cul-de-sac. Parking can resume street by street as soon as plowing is finished on that route, so the ban does not necessarily lift citywide at once. The city gives notice of the emergency through press, radio and television rather than individual signage.

A second, narrower tool sits in section 8-0818: the superintendent of streets can post signs, no later than 4:00 p.m., banning parking between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on streets where snow has to be hauled away because the berms are too small to hold it. Section 8-0819 requires drivers on a snow emergency route to keep moving; if a vehicle stalls, the driver must have it towed or pushed to the nearest cross street that is not a snow emergency route, and cannot abandon it there except to seek help.

Vehicles left on a snow emergency route, in violation of section 8-0817, or blocking plowing equipment or buses under section 8-0817(4), are declared a public nuisance under section 8-0820 and may be towed by a police officer or street department employee to a city pound, a city lot, or another legal spot. Section 8-0825 sets the storage fee at $7.50 per day for the first seven days and $5.00 per day after that, on top of removal costs and any outstanding parking tickets or warrants.