(a) If any motor vehicle or vehicles or trailer be parked in violation of Section 905.13 or if any machinery, equipment, building or construction supplies or materials of nature, be parked or stored in violation of Section 905.13, then every police officer is authorized and shall, in order to open such public street, avenue, alley, sidewalk or way to free flow of traffic, call a garageman or hauling contractor, both of whom shall be designated by the Mayor, to immediately remove such motor vehicle, vehicle, trailer, machinery, equipment, building or construction supplies or materials of any nature to a safe place of storage.
(b) The cost of such removal and storage shall be paid by the owner of the personal property to the person so removing and storing the same.
(c) In the event such personal property is not called for by the owner within sixty days, then the person so removing the personal property shall be permitted to proceed against such personal property so removed for rent, storage, towing and hauling, as the case may be, under the laws of the State made and provided for the collection of such charges. The police officer designating the work and services performed shall be deemed to be the agent of the owner.
(1978 Code Sec. 25-14.)