Oyster Bay, NY Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Town Code Article VII sets up the primary snow-route system. The Commissioner of the Department of Public Works maintains and can amend a list of Town roads designated as snow routes; the list takes effect once the Town Clerk publishes it in the Town's official newspapers, and it stays in effect until modified. Under § 233-261(b), the Town Supervisor may declare a snow emergency whenever, in his judgment, snow has created dangerous driving conditions, and the same section also triggers automatically whenever the National Weather Service predicts three inches of snow or more: during either trigger, vehicles cannot be parked or abandoned on the designated snow routes.

The Department of Public Works is required to post signs along those routes so drivers have notice. Any vehicle left on a snow route during an emergency is declared a nuisance and a menace to traffic, and DPW employees or any peace officer may relocate it elsewhere in the Town without liability for damage caused in the move. Article VIII adds a second, separate layer for streets that are not on the snow-route list: under § 233-262, during a declared emergency, parking flips to an odd/even side rule tied to the calendar year rather than the date, banning parking on the odd-address side of the street in even-numbered years and on the even-address side in odd-numbered years, so plows can clear one full side at a time.

DPW must post signs on those alternate-parking streets too, and a violator on top of the fine owes the cost, expense and storage fees of having their vehicle towed off the road.