(A) Whenever any vehicle is abandoned or junked, it may be removed for safe keeping and disposition by or under the direction of the Police Department, as specified below, to a storage garage or area.
(B) Any member of the Police Department is authorized to remove or cause to be removed any abandoned or junked vehicle, as hereinafter defined, from a street or other public place owned or controlled by the city and to have it removed to the designated storage garage or area.
(C) Any member of the Police Department is authorized to remove or cause to be removed any abandoned or junked vehicle, as hereinafter defined, from privately owned property or have it removed to the designated storage garage or area. No such vehicle shall be removed without the written request of the owner, lessee or occupant of the premises, unless the same has been declared by the town’s Board of Commissioners to be a health or safety hazard. The person at whose request the vehicle is removed shall indemnify the town against any loss or expense incurred by reason of the removal, storage or sale thereof, unless the Town Board of Commissioners or its designee determines that this indemnity is unnecessary.
(Ord. passed 11-1-1971) Penalty, see § 10.99