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sidewalks, and trails/parking lots are more -or -less separate processes and priorities between these infrastructures seldom conflict. (b) During significant and severe winter storms, the City must be prepared to move personnel and equipment to maintain Priority Snow Plow Routes if needed. In fulfilling the need to have all priority streets safe and passable, when resources are limited, plowing of all other streets may be stopped at any time so resources can be shifted to priority routes. (c) Snow plowing and ice control operations for municipal parking lots and trails may be intertwined since travel between municipal parking lots occurs on the trail system. (d) Unforeseeable circumstances may cause delays in completing assigned plow routes. Such circumstances may include weather conditions that endanger the safety of snowplow operators and/or safe and effective operation of equipment, commuter traffic, disabled vehicles, poor visibility conditions, parked cars along streets, assistance to emergency response vehicles, equipment breakdown, and personnel shortages. 3. RULES, REGULATIONS, AND PROPERTY DAMAGE A. Traffic and Parking Regulations 1. Snowplow Operator Exemption Minn. Statutes Chapter 169 (a) The City recognizes that snowplow operators are exempt from traffic regulations set forth in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 169 while actually engaged in work on streets, except for regulations related to driving while impaired and the safety of school children. Pursuant to this authority, snowplow operators engaged in snow removal or ice control on city streets have discretion to disregard traffic laws set forth in Chapter 169, except for laws relating to impaired driving and school children safety, when in their judgment, it is safe to disregard such laws. (b) The privileges granted herein to operators of snow removal and ice control vehicles shall apply only if the vehicle is equipped with one lighted lamp displaying a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light placed in such a position on the vehicle as to be visible throughout an arc of 360 degrees. 2. Snow and Ice Accumulations i Munici pal Code Section 801.40 Subd. 1 (a) "All snow accumulated from clearing or plowing operations on private property shall be stockpiled on the property from which the snow is cleared or upon other private property for which the property owner has written permission. In clearing snow and/or moving snow, it shall be unlawful to operate in such a manner as to cause any snow to be deposited in the street, on sidewalks, in the boulevard of any street or on private property for which the property owner does not have written permission for storage of snow. Snow cleared from the portion of a driveway or sidewalk in the boulevard of a street may be placed on the boulevard adjacent to the driveway or sidewalk, but may not be moved across the street to other areas without express permission of the property owner receiving the snow." 3. Parking During Snow Accumulations (Municipal Code Section 802.06) (a) "No person shall park or permit to be parked any vehicle within any block on any public street when, within the preceding forty eight (48) hours, melting or blowing snow or a combination thereof has accumulated to a depth of t#Fee two inches (32 2") or more at street level anywhere within that block. Provided, however, that parking shall be permitted within any block of any public street where not otherwise prohibited whenever the entire length of the roadway of such block has been cleared of snow from curb to curb or, in the case of streets without curbs, between the outer