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RURAL DRIVEWAYS Property owners with long driveways should check to insure the approach to their property is adequate to --- \ allow access for emergency vehicles. Poor driveway conditions can delay response by ambulances, fire trucks,and police in emergency situations. Items to Rai 1 �� 11 look for include narrow roadways, overgrown vegeta- tion, steep slopes,poor surfaces, and tight turns. The Fire Department recommends that long driveways ATTENTION SNOWMOBILERS be at least twenty feet wide and have a firm, even, all- With predictions for aheavier-than-average snowfall Feather surface. Driveways over 200 feet long should this year, people can look forward to a good snowmo- have turn-off areas where two-way traffic.can pass bile season. In order to make it a safe and pleasant sea- each other during.all four seasons. Remember,heater son, the City of Hugo has established the following and chimney fires are more likely in the winter rules for the use of snowmobiles in the City: months, so snowplowing should take into considera- tion emergency vehicle needs. TIMES OF OPERATION: Hugo City Code, Chapter 278,requires that all proper- Snowmobiles may be operated between the hours of ties containing a building be marked with their street 6:30AM and 11:00PM, except hours are extended on address in such a manner as to be visible from the weekends until 1:00AM Saturday and Sunday mornings.c street.Though addresses on mail boxes are required by SPEED LIMITS: the Postal Service,this"is often not adequate to identi- Speed limits for snowmobiles are set by State law, fy building sites as mailboxes maybe located away except that no snowmobile may be operated in Hugo at from the driveway entrance, and grouped together for a speed in excess of 15 mph within 100 feet of any resi- convenience.When numbers affixed to a building can dential dwelling. not be observed from the public road, driveways should be marked with six inch(6") letters, either WHERE ALLOWED: reflective or illuminated,visible from the street. -On private property with the specific written, dated, `Shared driveways should be marked to identify the and signed permission of the property owner or direction of specific homes or buildings. person in control of the property. Such permission By adequately identifying their property, and provid- must be carried with the operator of the snowmobile ing ample driveway access,residents can help insure at all times the vehicle is being operated on the themselves the fastest possible response times in property, unless the operator is the owner or a emergency situations. W family member of the owner. -On public lands and waters under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as permitted by law. -On City streets when traveling in the most right-hand lane available for automobile traffic, or as close as ZI practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of roadway, and when traveling in the same direction - Flu ti as automobile traffic in that lane. Use of snowmo- 82 biles on City streets is only authorized when it will not result in damage to the street. 40 r -On the ditch bottom or outside slope of any drainage M ditch that lies within, and runs parallel to, any City-controlled public road easement. Snowmobiles111 11111,1111 11 may not be operated on any boulevard area where VA � ee an identifiable ditch is not present. -On the ditch bottom, or outside slope of County Highway 8 EAST of Goodview Avenue, State Highway 61, County Highways 4, 4A, 7, and 57. -On posted trails approved for such use by the Hugo -- City Council.