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| Cars park along an icy street in Rexburg. During the winter months, vehicles can’t be parked on city streets overnight. |
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Gloria Layton
scroll staff
Winter is here and this is the time of year when you could get your car towed if you aren’t careful.
In fact, overnight parking in any of the on-campus parking lots can earn you a ticket from the BYU-Idaho Division of the Rexburg Police Department unless you have an authorized permit to park in the Pioneer and Biddulph parking lots.
Campus is not the only place you have to watch where you park. From Nov. 1 until March 1, the city of Rexburg prohibits overnight parking on city streets. If you leave your vehicle parked on the city streets between 2 and 4 a.m. you could be ticketed. You could also be towed if the snowplows need to plow.
Mayor Shawn Larsen said that if a car is left on the street when a snowplow goes through, the car can get plowed in and the driver won’t be able to move it.
“Idaho’s weather is unpredictable. You never know when there could be a storm at night and the snowplows would have to go out,” Mayor Larsen said.
That’s why tickets are issued, even when there is no snow, to vehicles violating the parking ordinance.
