Roseville, MN Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Section 602.07(a) of the Roseville City Code ties the parking ban to snowfall itself rather than to a declared emergency. No person can park any vehicle on any street for a period of 48 hours commencing immediately after any two inches or more continuous snowfall, or until snow removal has been completed on any street, whichever occurs first. The subsection prints two exceptions: parking in compliance with directions of a police officer, and parking in compliance with regulatory parking signs.

Subsection (b) declares any vehicle parked in violation to be a nuisance which interferes with snow removal from public streets. A police officer can remove or cause to be removed any such vehicle summarily, by means of towing or otherwise. As an alternative, the officer can require the driver or owner to remove the vehicle off the paved, improved or traveled portion of the street. Subsection (c) adds that removal by a police officer, or under the direction of a police officer, does not preclude a prosecution for violation of any provision of chapter 602.

The ban ends at whichever of two events comes first: the 48 hours run out, or snow removal is completed on the street. The measuring stick is two inches or more of continuous snowfall, so a resident has to watch accumulation rather than wait for an announcement, because the section prints no declaration step.

Roseville has a second tool for plowing and street work. Section 602.06 lets the public works director or the police chief temporarily prohibit vehicular parking or traffic on any public street while the public works department is performing maintenance or making improvements to the street, or while a public safety emergency exists on or near it. After the street has been posted with signs by the public works director or the police chief, no person can park or drive a vehicle on it. That posted-sign rule runs separately from the snowfall rule in § 602.07.

Section 602.04(a) keeps applying in winter: a parked vehicle has to stay parallel to the curb or edge of the street and within one foot of it.