(A) Members of the Police Department are authorized to remove, or cause to be removed, a vehicle from a street, public alley, or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department, or otherwise maintained by the city, under the following circumstances.
(1) When a vehicle is upon a roadway and is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and 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 or removal.
(2) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and constitutes a hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(3) When any vehicle is left parked upon a street for a continuous period of 48 hours or more. After a diligent effort to locate the owner has proven successful. If the owner is found, the owner shall be given the opportunity to remove the vehicle.
(4) When any vehicle is left parked in violation of a ban on parking during a snow emergency, as proclaimed by the City Administrator and Police Chiefunder § 11.02.
(B) In addition to the penalties hereinafter provided, the owner or driver of any vehicle impounded for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be required to pay the cost of towing charges and storage.
(Prior Code, § 3-3-31) (Ord. 03-04, passed 9-9-2003)