(a) No person shall store a wrecked, junked, unlicensed or other motor vehicle on a public highway in the township.
(b) The Police Department, after notice to the owner of such a vehicle to remove the same and upon the failure of such owner to do so, or in the event the owner cannot be located or ascertained, shall remove or direct the removal of the vehicle from the highway.
(c) Upon the removal of such vehicle from the public highway by or at the direction of the police, the vehicle shall be impounded by the police until the owner thereof has paid the costs incident to the removal, towing and storage of the vehicle.
(d) Upon the failure of the owner of the vehicle removed from the public highway to pay the costs incident to its removal, towing and storage, the Township Secretary shall institute suit against the owner to recover the costs.
(Ord. 280, passed 10-16-1963; Ord. 357, passed 2-16-1972; Ord. 812, passed 12-17-2003)