When any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or city-owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, the officer is hereby authorized to require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to remove the same to a position in compliance with this chapter. When any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street or city-owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, the officer is hereby authorized to impound the unlawfully parked vehicle and to provide for the removal thereof in compliance with M.S. § 168B.035, as amended, and to remove the same to a convenient garage or other facility or place of safety; provided, that the cost of removal or storage of the vehicle shall be paid by the vehicle owner prior to removal from the place of storage or safekeeping.
(Prior Code, § 9.12)