Owensboro, KY Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

The city engineer's office reviews the priority route list annually, adding or removing streets based on public safety, medical needs, transit routes, utility service, and the location of major employers; any mid-year revisions go to the board of commissioners for review. Appropriate signage marks every designated route so drivers can identify a snow route year-round, even though the parking ban itself only activates once the mayor, city manager, or a state or federal official declares a weather-related emergency or weather-related event. Once that declaration is in effect, no vehicle may be left on a priority one or priority two route for its duration, and the Owensboro Police Department or towing contractors may remove any vehicle found there without prior notice, billing the cost of the tow to the vehicle's owner.

Violating the parking ban is a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day the vehicle remains can be charged separately. Because the ordinance covers weather-related events more broadly than just snow, the same priority-route parking ban and towing authority apply to ice storms and other hazardous conditions the mayor determines warrant a declaration, not solely to snowfall. The ordinance traces to 1955 Code § 22-135.1 and was amended by Ord. No. 46-2005 and Ord. No. 9-2015 to add the current declaration and towing authority.