(A) When authorized by the laws of this state, members of the Police Department may remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety or to a garage designated or maintained by the city.
(B) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this section, and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner, such officer shall immediately cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal, the reasons therefore, and the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor.
(C) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section and is unable to give the notice to the owner as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three days, then the officer shall immediately cause to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the State of Indiana, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored.
(Ord., passed 11-20-78; Am. Ord. 2006-09, passed 4-17-06)