(A) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or other place of safety or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department, or by this municipality, when:
(1) Any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge causeway, where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
(2) A vehicle upon a street is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic or the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody, and removal;
(3) A vehicle is found being operated upon to streets and not in a condition to be safely operated;
(4) Any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic;
(5) Any vehicle is left unattended upon a street continuously for more than 24 hours and may be presumed to be abandoned;
(6) The driver of such vehicle is taken into custody by the Police Department and such vehicle would thereby be left unattended upon a street;
(7) The removal is necessary in the interest of public safety because of fire, flood, storm or other emergency reason; or
(8) A vehicle is left in violation of a parking control device which informs vehicle operators that the area in which the vehicle is parked is an official tow away zone.
(B) No vehicle impounded in an authorized garage as herein provided, shall be released therefrom, until the charges for towing such vehicle into the garage, and storage charges have been paid.
(Ord. 391, passed 4-10-2001)