(A) Authorized. Whenever any police officer or Public Safety employee shall find a vehicle standing upon a street or alley in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the individual may remove or have the vehicle removed or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the vehicle to a position off the roadway of the street or alley or from the street or alley.
(B) Payment of costs. The owner or other person lawfully entitled to the possession of any vehicle towed or stored shall be charged with the reasonable cost of towing and storage fees. Any such towing or storage fee shall be a lien upon the vehicle prior to all other claims. Any person towing or storing a vehicle shall be entitled to retain possession of the vehicle until the charges are paid. The lien provided for in this section shall not apply to the contents of any vehicles.
(C) “Vehicle” defined. For purposes of this section, the term VEHICLE shall be defined to include, in addition to the definition of vehicle by state statute, any mobile home, travel trailer, boat, boat trailer, pontoon, pontoon trailer, car trailer, utility trailer, pickup camper, horse trailer, stock trailer or machinery of any kind not in immediate use.
(Prior Code, § 50-290)
Statutory reference:
Authority to remove certain vehicles, see Neb. RS 60-6,165