(A) The owner of any removed vehicle, before obtaining possession thereof, shall pay to the city all reasonable costs incidental to its removal, storage or the locating of the owner.
(B) Should such owner fail or refuse to pay the costs within twenty (20) days after receipt of the notice, or should his identity or whereabouts be unknown and unascertainable after a reasonable search and after notice as prescribed in § 6-3-23, the stored vehicle may be sold after twenty (20) days' notice has been given to the Department of Motor Vehicles before the date of the sale and after the vehicle has been held for not less than thirty (30) days; provided, further, that § 6-3-25 shall govern disposition of any junk motor vehicles.
(C) The vehicle may be sold by public sale, after one (1) public notice published in a newspaper of general circulation, but no vehicle may be sold or disposed of until its value has been determined in writing by at least two (2) disinterested dealers or garage men.
(D) A vehicle of an appraised value of less than fifty dollars ($50) may be disposed of by any means in the discretion of the storing agent of the city.
(E) The proceeds of any sale shall be forwarded to the City Finance Director, who shall pay from the proceeds the costs of removal, storage, investigation as to ownership and sale and other liens, in that order. If after the sale the ownership at the time of removal if established satisfactorily to the City Manager, the owner shall be paid so much of the proceeds as remains after payment of the foregoing costs and liens; otherwise, any remaining proceeds shall be deposited after ninety (90) days in the general fund of the city.