§ 452.02 POLICE MAY REMOVE ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE; EMERGENCIES.
   (A)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of Ohio R.C. 4511.66 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, such officer may move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such highway.
   (B)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any highway, bridge, or causeway, or in any tunnel, where such vehicles constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer may provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.
(ORC 4511.67) (Amending Ordinance)
   (C)   Whenever, in the opinion of the Mayor, there is an actual or threatened local emergency, such as fire, riot, flood, other acts of God, common disaster or acts of the enemy, the Mayor may require the removal of motor vehicles parked upon the affected streets of the city. The Mayor shall inform the public of the aforementioned conditions through the reasonable and usual methods of communication. Actual notification to the owners or operators of the vehicles is not required. If the owner or operator of the vehicle does not remove it within a reasonable time, the vehicle may be impounded and removed by order of the Police Department.