When streets are snow-covered, make sure you know where to park to avoid a ticket.

Not doing so could cost you $25 for a ticket, which, if not paid within 10 days, can become $40, according to Chapter 51 of DeKalb’s Municipal Code.

“When there’s two inches or more [snow], you cannot park on [snow routes] until snow plowing is complete,” said Mark Espy, DeKalb director of public works.

Not every road in DeKalb is a snow route. Snow routes are on main roads where parking is available. For example, because parking is not available on Annie Glidden Road, it is not part of a snow route. Lincoln Highway, between First and Seventh Streets, where parking is available, is a snow route. The rest of the highway is not on a snow route.

“The snow routes are in place so people can move their cars, we can plow [the streets] properly, and they can get back on them,” Espy said.

Parking is available on secondary roads, often coming off primary roads.

“The snow has to be cleared curb-to-curb before people can park in the street,” said DeKalb Police Sgt. Jonathan Costliow. “If there’s not six inches, when a vehicle hasn’t been driven with in 24 to 48 hours, we tag it as an abandoned vehicle.”

The DeKalb Police Department can try to get hold of the person by phone or mail. If the car is not moved after seven days, they may tow the car. The cost of towing is $55.

A general rule of thumb for parking on snow routes is if it may snow the next day, people should move their cars from snow routes, Costliow said.

In a snow emergency, “it’s a major event and we have to get the snow off the street because we’re burying [cars],” he said.