A. Towing Cars Away:
1. Authorization: The police department and all members thereof assigned to traffic duty are hereby authorized to remove and tow away or have removed and towed away by commercial towing service, any car or other vehicle illegally parked in any place where such parked vehicle creates or constitutes a traffic hazard, blocks the use of a fire hydrant or obstructs or may obstruct the movement of any emergency vehicle.
2. Nuisance Declared: A vehicle parked or occupying any portion of any public street in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance which shall be abated by any police officer by issuing a traffic citation for such violation and placing it upon such vehicle and causing such vehicle to be removed and towed or conveyed to a vehicle pound designated by the chief of police.
B. Redemption Of Impounded Vehicles: The owner or authorized operator of such impounded vehicle may have the vehicle removed from impoundment by paying all costs and expenses that have been incurred for the towing and storage of such vehicle, plus all towage and storage charges which have theretofore accrued against such vehicle during the time of his ownership thereof. The payment of such costs, expenses and charges shall be in addition to the penalty that may be imposed upon conviction of a violation of this chapter as provided hereafter.
C. Sale Of Impounded Vehicles; Notice To Owner: Any vehicle impounded under authority of this chapter may, after thirty (30) days from the date of impoundment, be sold by the department of police either at a private or public sale to the highest bidder. The owner of such vehicle on the date of impoundment, as may be shown by the records of the office of the secretary of state of Illinois or of the office of the secretary of state of that state in which such vehicle was last licensed, shall be given at least ten (10) days' notice in writing of the proposed sale; the notice of proposed sale may be delivered in person or sent by United States mail, postage prepaid in full, to such owner at the address as shown in such secretary of state's office. (Ord. 365-86, 4-8-1986)