Royal Oak Township, MI Parking Rules: Snow Removal Parking Rules (2026)

Chapter 24, Article III, Division 2 sets up a two-tier snow parking system, and the township supervisor, not the Township Board, triggers it. Under § 24-80(a), when the supervisor finds, from falling snow, sleet or freezing rain or from a forecast of the U.S. Weather Bureau or another weather service, that parking on township streets must be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing or other purposes, he causes a parking prohibition to take effect on parts of or all snow emergency routes. Snow emergency routes are the streets designated by the public works and services department and marked as such, and they count as first priority streets.

Once in effect, the prohibition stays in effect until the supervisor terminates it by announcement. The one automatic exception in § 24-80(b) is any street area that has become clear of snow and ice from curb to curb for a length lying between two successive street intersections. While the ban is on, no person shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any portion of a snow emergency route to which it applies.

Second priority streets are all streets not designated snow emergency routes (§ 24-76). Under § 24-81, when the supervisor makes the same weather finding, he puts a prohibition into effect between 12:01 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. On days having uneven dates, vehicles are prohibited from parking on the side of the street having uneven street numbers. On days having even dates, the prohibition applies to the side having even street numbers. It ends on the supervisor's announcement, or once a street area between two successive intersections is substantially clear of snow and ice from curb or median line.

Section 24-82 requires each declaration to be publicly announced by broadcasts and/or telecasts from stations with normal operating range covering the township, and the supervisor can add newspapers of general circulation when feasible. Each announcement describes the action taken, the time it became or will become effective, and the streets or areas affected. The sidewalk side of winter is separate: § 24-77 requires snow and ice to be cleared from paved sidewalks within 24 hours after a fall ends.