A. Authority To Impound: Employees of the city, when properly authorized, may remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the city, under the following circumstances:
1. When any such vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge or where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
2. When a vehicle upon a highway 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.
3. When any vehicle is left unattended and is so illegally parked as to constitute a definite hazard to the normal movement of traffic.
B. Notice Of Impoundment:
1. Whenever a vehicle is removed from the street as provided in subsection A of this section, and the officer or employee knows or is able to ascertain the name and address of the owner thereof, such person shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle was removed.
2. Whenever a vehicle is removed from the street under this section and the name of such owner is not known, or for any other reason the owner cannot be notified, and in the event such vehicle is not returned to the owner within three (3) days, then, and in that event, the city secretary shall send or cause to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy with the owner of any public garage in which such vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reason for such removal and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored. (1988 Code § 6-3-3)