Should the owner of an impounded motor vehicle fail or refuse to pay the costs above mentioned or should the identity or whereabouts of such owner be unknown and unascertainable after a diligent search, and after written notice to him or her at his or her last known address if his or her identity is known, and to the holder of any lien on record in the office of the State Department of Motor Vehicles against such vehicle, the Chief of Police or his or her designee may, after holding such vehicle for 30 days and after having the value thereof determined by three disinterested automobile dealers or garagemen and after giving 20 days’ notice to the State Department of Motor Vehicles, such notice to include all information which can be reasonably ascertained to identify such vehicle, dispose of the same by private or public sale and shall forward the proceeds of such sale to the Town Clerk.
(1987 Code, § 8-3-09)