(A) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest public garage or other place of safety, or to a garage maintained by this city under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.
(1) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and 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 or removal.
(2) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a roadway and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a roadway for a longer period than three (3) days and under circumstances indicating abandonment.
(4) Any vehicle that has an unpaid civil offenses citation issued pursuant to this chapter. In addition to impoundment, the vehicle may also be “booted” or other means of prohibiting movement to insure payment of outstanding parking civil offense citations.
(5) Under any circumstances provided by state, Federal and/or local law.
(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 of the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof such officer shall as soon as possible give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of 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 of such garage.
(Ord. 146, passed 9-15-64; Am. Ord. 16-1024, passed 3-28-16)