As an alternate procedure, the Chief of Police may, after giving the notice required by § 10.08.030, and after waiting 72 hours, cause the vehicle or vehicles to be removed by a city truck or by a commercial tow truck to a commercial garage or an automobile wrecking yard or any other suitable place for storage of the vehicles as may be designated by the Chief of Police. Within 48 hours after removal and storage of the vehicle by the Chief of Police, he or she shall give the notice in the manner prescribed in § 10.08.030 to the registered owner of the vehicle and also to the owner, lessee or person in possession of land from which the vehicle was or vehicles were removed, that the vehicle or vehicles have been impounded and stored for violation of this chapter and notice that the vehicles shall be deemed to have been abandoned and will thereafter be discarded as junk or may, at the discretion of the Chief of Police, be sold as an abandoned vehicle in the manner prescribed in this chapter after giving not less than 30 days’ notice by a registered letter addressed to the registered owner of the vehicle at his or her latest address shown on the records in the office in the Motor Vehicles Division of the state, with the owner given the right to reclaim the vehicle within the 30 days by paying all the costs and expenses incurred in the removal, preservation and custody of the vehicle for a period not in excess of 90 days; and if not so reclaimed, then to be sold, with the Chief of Police to execute a certificate of sale in duplicate, with a copy of the certificate of sale to be delivered to the purchaser and the original to be retained by the Chief of Police; and the money so received from the sale thereof to be applied first to the payment of the costs and expenses incurred in the removal, preservation and custody of the vehicle and the remainder to be retained by the city and deposited in the General Fund.