Members of the Police Department are authorized to immediately remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the garage or other place of safety designated by the Police Department or otherwise maintained by the city, under circumstances enumerated below:
(A) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(B) When any vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person in charge of the vehicle is by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(C) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(D) When any vehicle is improperly licensed.
(E) When any vehicle has two or more unpaid violations on file in the office of the Chief of Police or City Clerk and the violations have remained unpaid for a period of at least seven days.
(F) When the motor vehicle is parked on any street in the city for a continuous period in excess of 72 hours without the motor vehicle being driven.
(H) When the motor vehicle is parked in a road construction area, is parked in an area where parking is temporarily prohibited, is blocking a fire hydrant, or is deemed by a police officer to be a public safety hazard.
('76 Code, § 60.08(A)) (Ord. 874-1967, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 1649-2012, passed 12-11-12; Am. Ord. 1782-2019, passed 1-14-20)