(A) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department, or by this town, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, causeway or viaduct, or in any subway, where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
(2) When a vehicle upon a street is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, or the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody and removal;
(3) When a vehicle is found being operated upon the streets and is not in proper condition;
(4) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic;
(5) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street continuously for more than 24 hours and may be presumed to be abandoned;
(6) When the driver of such vehicle is taken into custody by the Police Department and such vehicle would thereby be left unattended upon a street;
(7) When removal is necessary in the interest of public safety because of fire, flood, storm or other emergency reason;
(8) When any vehicle is parked in an area that is designated no parking by proper signs stating “Tow Away Zone”; or
(9) When any self-propelled vehicle is left unattended on any portion of any sidewalk at any hour of the day or night.
(B) Any violator taken into custody may at the discretion of the Police Magistrate be released without posting bond, if the violator agrees to the impounding authorized by this section of the vehicle owned and driven by the violator or to surrender his or her driver’s license to insure the violator’s appearance in the court to answer the charges against same and pay such fine as may be assessed against the violator.
(1977 Code, § 16-88) (Ord. 2-75, passed 4-24-1975)