Any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, or part thereof, left for more than ten days in a garage operated for commercial purposes or for more than ten days after the period when, pursuant to contract, the vehicle was to remain on the premises, shall be deemed an abandoned motor vehicle and may be reported by the garagekeeper to the County, after notice by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner and all persons having security interests therein, to pick up the vehicle within fifteen days of the notice. All abandoned vehicles left in garages may be taken into custody by the Sheriff in accordance with Section 602.06 and shall be subject to the notice and sale provisions contained in Sections 602.07 and 602.08, provided that if such vehicle is reclaimed in accordance with Section 602.07, the person reclaiming such vehicle shall, in addition to the other charges required to be paid, pay the charges of the garagekeeper, if any. Further, if such vehicle is sold pursuant to Section 602.08, the garagekeeper's charges, if any, shall be paid from, and to the extent of, the excess of the proceeds of sale after paying the expenses of the auction, the costs of towing, preserving and storing such vehicle which resulted from placing such vehicle in custody and all notice and publication costs incurred pursuant to Section 602.07.
(Ord. 93-03. Passed 3-17-93.)