Palatine, IL Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Section 28-91(a) makes it unlawful to park or cause to be parked any vehicle on a public street in Palatine at any time within a twenty-four-hour period after two inches or more of snow has accumulated. Subsection (b) treats any such violation, or any parked vehicle otherwise obstructing snow plowing, as an emergency: the village manager or chief of police may have the vehicle towed by a commercial towing service to a designated storage location, and the police department must notify the owner of the vehicle's location as soon as reasonably possible.

Subsection (c) makes the owner responsible for the full towing cost plus additional charges set in the village's fine schedule supplement, on top of any fine or court costs for the underlying violation. Subsection (d) separately makes it unlawful to remove or possess a towed vehicle from storage without first paying all towing, preparation and storage fees, backed by an additional penalty from the fine schedule. Subsection (e) prohibits obstructing snow removal more broadly: plowing snow from a private lot or driveway onto a village street or right-of-way, plowing it in a way that narrows a street or blocks drainage, depositing it on a right-of-way not adjacent to the property it came from, or interfering with village snow-removal crews or equipment.

Citations for these obstruction violations may be issued to the property owner or to any firm acting as the owner's agent, and the section's default penalty is set in the village's fine schedule supplement referenced in § 28-91(f).