(A) The county shall keep an abandoned vehicle account to help defray the costs of enforcing this subchapter. To this end, the Unsafe Building Fund, as previously established by Chapter 150, will be used as this account, and heretofore, shall be called the Joint Abatement, Abandoned Vehicle, and Unsafe Building Fund and operated in accordance with I.C. 36-7-9-14 and I.C. 9-22-1-27.
(B) The costs of towing, storing, and removing and disposing of an abandoned vehicle shall be allocated as follows.
(1) The owner or lienholder shall pay the cost in an amount not in excess of $150 and in all cases not to exceed the fair market value of the car.
(2) The rest of the cost shall be paid from the abandoned vehicles account.
(3) The owner or lienholder shall be able to reclaim a vehicle in storage only after all costs are paid and a reclamation fee of $50 is paid to the abandoned vehicle account.
(C) All proceeds from the sale shall be deposited with the County Auditor and placed by him or her in the county’s abandoned vehicle account.
(Ord. 24-2021, passed 12-28-2021)