(a) Authority to Remove Bicycles. Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove bicycles from a public place to a place of safety, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.
(1) When any bicycle is reasonably believed to be stolen.
(2) When any bicycle has been left unattended upon any public street, alley, or sidewalk continuously for a period of forty-eight hours, or when any bicycle is left in such a manner as to obstruct unreasonably the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic on any public street, alley or sidewalk.
(1975 Code § 10.50)
(b) Notice. When a bicycle is impounded under the provisions of this section and the Police Department knows or is able to ascertain the owner thereof, the Police Department shall, within a reasonable period of time, give and cause to be given a notice in writing to such owner of the fact of impoundment and the reasons therefor.
(1975 Code § 10.51)
(c) Fee. No impounded bicycle shall be discharged or removed from the Bicycle Pound except upon the payment by the owner or his or her authorized representative of the an impounding fee to be determined from time to time by Council, provided, however, that no such fee shall be required for a stolen bicycle if it is reclaimed by the owner within three days of being notified of the impoundment and if said owner signs an affidavit that the bicycle is stolen. Said fee shall be paid at the City Clerk's office.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(d) Sale. Any bicycle impounded under the provisions of this section may, after one month from the date of impoundment, be sold by the Police Department at public sale in the same manner as provided by law.
(1975 Code § 10.53)