§ 351.01 POLICE MAY REMOVE ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE.
   (a)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of R.C. § 4511.66 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the officer may move the vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of the highway.
   (b)   Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any highway, bridge or causeway, or in any tunnel, where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, the officer may provide for the removal of the vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.
(R.C. § 4511.67)