Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to 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 Police Department, or otherwise maintained by the town, under the following circumstances:
(A) When a vehicle is found unattended in any place as may be prohibited by this Traffic Code;
(B) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in charge of such vehicle are, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal;
(C) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street or alley or is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic;
(D) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street, alley or municipal parking lot and is parked illegally, or parked in a place as may be prohibited by this chapter, and such vehicle interferes with snow plowing, snow removal, leaf removal, street cleaning or the maintenance of streets or public utilities; or
(E) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a municipal parking lot and remains there 24 hours after being tagged with a notice to remove by the Police Department, or such vehicle is inoperable, disabled or not currently licensed and registered.
(Prior Code, § 62.12)