(A) No vehicles or other obstruction shall be allowed to stand or remain parked unattended any street or alley within the city for more than 24 hours at any one time. Any vehicle or other obstruction allowed to stand or remain parked unattended on such streets for more than such a period shall be deemed and declared and hereby is deemed and declared to be a public nuisance and any regular or special police officer of the city is authorized and directed to order to owner or operator of such vehicle or other obstruction to remove the same and if said owner or operator fails or refuses to remove the same within a reasonable time or cannot with reasonable diligence by found, said regular or special police officer is authorized and directed to remove such vehicle or other obstruction from said streets and take the same into his or her possession and impound it by placing and keeping the vehicle or other obstruction so impounded at any public garage at the expense of the owner, or at any other place as the City Council may from time to time, by resolution, direct. The Street Commissioner and any employees of the city engaged in street maintenance shall, at the request of said regular or special police officer, aid in the removal and impounding of any vehicle or other obstruction as above provided, and may use any equipment owned by th city for that purpose.
(B) Any owner or person entitled to possession of a vehicle or other property so impounded may secure possession of said vehicle or other property by proving to the reasonable satisfaction of said regular or special police officer that he or she is the owner or entitled to the possession thereof, and, if stored in a public garage, paying the storage and towing fee therefor a sum equal to $10 for each day said vehicle or other property is impounded by the city under this section. All sums so collected shall be paid into the City Treasury by the collecting officer to reimburse the city for the expense of removing and impounding and shall be credited to the General Fund.
(Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see § 72.99