(a) No person shall park any motor vehicle or cause the same to be parked upon any lot or tract of land within the City which has been acquired and established as a private parking lot for the customers of one or more particular business establishments, for the employees of one or more business establishments, for the vehicles of certain individuals for which specific parking spaces have been reserved or any other lot or tract of land not set aside and used as a public parking lot, when such person is not a customer, employee or person having a space reserved on such lot or authorized by the owner, operator or lessee of such lot or reserved space to park such motor vehicle thereon. The presence of any legible signs on or about such lots or tracts of land indicating that such lot is for the use of certain individuals or a class of individuals or is established as a private or restricted parking lot, shall be sufficient notice to persons who are not such individuals or a member of such class of individuals for whom such parking lot is established that the parking of motor vehicles thereon is not authorized and is unlawful.
(Ord. 1953-13. Passed 2-4-53.)
(b) The owner, operator or lessee of any such parking lot or of any such parking lot as described in subsection (a) hereof may, upon discovery of any motor vehicle illegally parked on any such lot or in any such reserved space thereon, have the same removed therefrom to a place of safekeeping. If such removal required the services of a wrecker, the operator of such wrecker shall be entitled to charge the owner of such motor vehicle for such wrecker service a reasonable and customary charge for the towing and storage of the motor vehicle after the removal. For the payment of these charges the owner of such wrecker is hereby given a lien on such motor vehicle and is authorized to retain possession thereof until the charges are paid.
In the event that the motor vehicle is locked and the vehicle cannot be towed without entrance into the vehicle, the owner, operator or lessee of the parking lot may summon officers of the Department of Police, and such officers are hereby authorized to take what action is reasonably necessary to effect an entrance into such vehicle to ready it for removal by towing or otherwise. (Ord. 1989-11. Passed 2-14-89.)