307.04 COSTS; FEES.
(a) Storage Costs. Whenever any vehicle, except a bicycle, is stored in a vehicle pound upon the order of the police officer, a charge of five dollars ($5.00) for each day or portion thereof shall be charged for the storage of such vehicle. For purposes of this section, a "day" shall be construed to mean the twenty-four hour period commencing at the date and time such vehicle is impounded by legal authority and every succeeding twenty-four hour period thereafter. When the fees are paid as provided in the first paragraph of subsection (c) hereof, the owner or other person claiming an impounded vehicle must remove such vehicle from the vehicle pound within the same day as defined herein; otherwise, additional storage costs will be incurred and must be paid as provided in such subsection (c) before the vehicle can be removed from the vehicle pound by the owner or other person claiming such vehicle. From the storage charge collected for each day or portion thereof pursuant to this section, the City may retain as an administrative fee that portion of the daily storage charge as agreed to by the Chief of Police and the owner or lessee of the vehicle pound, if other than the City.
(b) Impounding Fees. In addition to any storage fees which may be assessed under the provisions of subsection (a) hereof, a fee to defray the costs of impounding, operating, removing or conveying a vehicle, shall be assessed against the owner or other person claiming any impounded vehicle. Such fee shall be deemed assessed and due from the moment of impounding as established in Section 307.01. Impounding fees are hereby determined to be as follows:
(1) Forty dollars ($40.00) for all vehicles towed fromprivate tow-away zones within the City and for all other vehicles up to and including one ton trucks and one ton buses impounded within the City limits or from Clearfork Reservoir. Of such fee, fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be retained by the City as an administrative fee.
(2) Fifteen dollars ($15.00) as an administrative fee to be retained by the City, plus fifty dollars ($50.00) per hour, or portion thereof, for use of a mediumsized wrecker, when required, computed from the time such wrecker leaves the garage until the work is completed.
(3) Fifteen dollars ($15.00) as an administrative fee to be retained by the City, plus seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per hour, or portion thereof, for use of a large-sized wrecker, when required, computed from the time such wrecker leaves the garage until the work is completed.
(c) Payment of Fees. Payment of fees assessed under the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) hereof shall be made to the City at the Police Division, or other designated location, in the Municipal Building; provided, if the owner or person claiming an impounded vehicle arrives at the scene of impounding before the vehicle is removed from the point of the violation such owner or person claiming the impounded vehicle may bar removal of such vehicle to a pound by payment of the following service call fees which are hereby established:
Service calls within the City limits pursuant to subsection (b)(1) hereof are twenty dollars, if the vehicle has been prepared for removal, if not so prepared, the service calls are fifteen dollars ($15.00).
Service calls at Clearfork Reservoir pursuant to subsection (b)(1) hereof are twenty doll ars ($20.00).
Service calls within the City limits pursuant to subsections (b)(2) and (3) hereof are twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
Service calls at Clearfork Reservoir pursuant to Sections (b) (2) and (3) hereof are thirty-five dollars ($35.00).
Such service call fees shall be paid only to the operator of the tow vehicle and the operator shall issue receipts for such fees in sufficient number to provide at least one copy thereof to the owner or other person claiming the impounded vehicle and one copy to the City.
(Ord. 83-054. Passed 3-15-83.)