Irondequoit, NY Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Section 222-29(A) of the Town of Irondequoit Code applies when a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency affects the portion of highway where a vehicle sits. The Commissioner of Public Works/Superintendent of Highways or the Irondequoit Police Department can then remove it. The section does not name snow emergency routes and sets no alternate-side schedule, so the tool is removal of the vehicle itself. Subsections (B) and (C) extend removal to an unattended vehicle that obstructs traffic and to a vehicle parked where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited. The article defines streets and highways as the paved portions of all highways, roads and streets, including all shoulders, whether paved or unpaved, within the Town.

After removal, the Commissioner can store the vehicle in a suitable place at the owner's expense under § 222-31, and the owner redeems it by paying the Irondequoit Police Department or its designated agent the expenses actually and necessarily incurred in removal, towing and storage, per the schedule the Town Board establishes. Section 222-32 deems vehicles left abandoned or unattended in violation of the article a nuisance and a menace to the safe or proper regulation of traffic and lets the Commissioner or any police officer have them removed to any location without liability for damages to the vehicle. The reimbursement is in addition to any penalty.

Section 222-33 requires the Commissioner or the Police Department to ascertain, to the extent possible, the owner or person in charge and to notify him or her of the removal and of the amount needed to redeem the vehicle. Failure to find or notify the owner does not prevent enforcement of the article, the towing of the vehicle or the fixing of any fine. Chapter 219 repeats the snowstorm and emergency removal authority for the Commissioner of Public Works/Town Superintendent of Highways in § 219-1. The article's winter overnight parking ban in § 222-30 is a separate rule, covered on the overnight parking page.