(A) Any abandoned vehicle or vehicle which the police authority of the city seeks to impound shall be disposed of or impounded only after the notices and hearings have been provided, as set forth in this section.
(B) When the Chief of Police seeks to impound a vehicle, as authorized in § 90.04, or to remove an abandoned vehicle, as set out in § 90.02, or receives a notification of such abandoned, lost, stolen, or unclaimed motor vehicle, as set out in § 90.03, all sections of the ordinances of the city, the Chief of Police shall give notice of the status of such vehicle, in writing, which notice shall contain a description of the vehicle or vehicles, or parts thereof, to be removed; and inform the recipient that he/she has a right to a hearing should he/she demand one, and that such demand must be made in writing and delivered to the City Clerk within five days from the date of the mailing of such notice given him; and which notice shall be entitled “Notice to Abate Condition”; which notice shall be served upon the owner of the premises as shown on the assessment rolls of the county real estate tax assessor, or upon the lessee or occupant of the premises; which notice shall be served by depositing the notice, postage paid, in the United States Post Office in the city, directed to the owner, lessee, or occupant. Such notice may also, at the option of the Chief of Police, be personally served upon the owner, lessee, or occupant. If the owner is not known, or resides outside the state, the notice shall be given by posting a copy thereof conspicuously upon the vehicle or vehicles, or parts thereof, to be removed, for five days. Service of notice shall be deemed to be completed five days after posting. Such notice shall specify that if a vehicle or vehicles, or parts thereof, are not removed within a period of 48 hours after the notice, that the removal of the vehicle or vehicles, or parts thereof, the assessment of administrative costs and the cost of the removal of the vehicle or vehicles, or parts thereof, against the property upon which it is located shall be accomplished unless a demand for hearing is filed within 48 hours from the date of the notice posted.
('72 Code, § 95.019.1) (Ord. passed 8-1-83)