(A) Any peace officer or any other employee, in the territorial limits in which the officer or employee is authorized to act, who has reasonable grounds to believe that a vehicle has been abandoned, may remove the vehicle from a highway or from public or private property.
(B) Any peace officer may remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act, when any vehicle is abandoned, parked or left standing upon a highway for 72 or more consecutive hours.
(C) Motor vehicles which are abandoned, parked, resting, or otherwise immobilized on any highway or public right-of-way and which lack an engine, transmission, wheels, tires, doors, windshield, or any other part or equipment necessary to operate safely on the highways of this state are a public nuisance and may be removed immediately upon discovery by a peace officer or employee.
(D) Any person performing a franchise or contract awarded pursuant to Cal. Veh. Code § 22710(a) may remove a vehicle from a highway or from public or private property, after a determination by a peace officer or other employee that the vehicle is abandoned, as determined pursuant to Cal. Veh. Code § 22523.
(Ord. 99-05, passed 5-10-99)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Cal. Veh. Code §§ 22651(k) and 22669