(A) The Town Marshal, or any law enforcement official duly selected or named to enforce the provisions of this chapter, may remove any vehicle from the street or highway, to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage maintained by the town under these circumstances:
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge where that vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, and the person or persons in charge of the vehicle by reason of physical injury is incapacitated and unable to provide for its custody and removal; or
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street or roadway and is parked illegally as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to normal movement of traffic.
(B) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street or roadway as authorized in this chapter, and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration record in the vehicle, the name and address of its owner, that officer shall immediately attempt to give or cause to be given notice in writing to that owner of the fact of the removal, and the reason for it, and the place to which that vehicle has been removed. If any vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of that notice shall be given to the proprietor of that garage.
(1985 Code, § 9-4-1-28(f)) (Ord. 106, passed 12-2-1957) Penalty, see § 71.99