Newark, OH Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Section 452.09 of the Newark Code of Ordinances is the city's snow emergency rule, passed by the Newark City Council in 1980 and revised in 2005. It does not use an alternate-side schedule. Instead, division (b) names the streets where parking is prohibited the moment snowfall accumulates to a depth of two inches or more, running from Allen Street at item (1) to Wright Street at item (64). Entries include East Main Street, West Main Street, Granville Road (Street), State Route 13, State Route 16, State Route 79, King Avenue, Hamilton Avenue and segments such as Locust Street between First and Tenth Streets and Second Street between Locust Street and the south City limits.

The ban applies only where parking is otherwise permitted, and any vehicle found parked in violation is removed at the order of the Director of Public Safety at the expense of the owner or operator, in addition to the penalty provided in Section 408.02.

The code spells out who does what. Under division (c) the Safety Director must have proper and adequate signs placed giving notice of the snow and ice removal routes, and those signs are considered permanently installed, so the ban binds drivers whether or not a notice was handed out. Under division (d) the Service Director determines the extent of accumulation and advises the Safety Director once it reaches two inches. The Safety Director then disseminates through the mass media the effective date and time of the parking prohibition.

Division (e) sets the plowing order for the Service Director: first the Public Square and Downtown Area, second the arterial streets connecting the Downtown Area, third the primary connector streets, fourth the secondary connector streets, and fifth the public streets and public ways determined to be public school bus routes. A resident on a listed street should move the vehicle before the two-inch threshold is reached, because the prohibition attaches to the accumulation rather than to a separate declaration on a given block.