(A) No person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of 72 hours.
('64 Code, § 14-60) (Ord. 17, passed - - )
(B) The Chief of Police of the city shall remove to a safe place every vehicle which has been parked or left standing upon a street or alley for 72 or more consecutive hours. As used in this section, the words
SAFE PLACE include but are not confined to any garage, parking lot or open space owned by, maintained by, or under the jurisdiction of the city, and also every privately owned garage, the owner or proprietor of which will accept such vehicles.
('64 Code, § 14-61) (Ord. 19, passed - - )
(C) For the purposes of this section a vehicle shall be deemed parked for such 72 hours unless during that period it is either driven a minimum of one mile after leaving the location where it has been parked, or parked a distance of at least 300 feet from the location where it has been parked.
(D) It shall be a violation of this section for any person to intentionally remove, obliterate or conceal any chalk mark or other distinctive mark or indicator used by any police officer or any other city official in connection with the enforcement of parking regulations.
(Am. Ord. 254, passed 11-4-64; Am. Ord. 941, passed 6-26-03; Am. Ord. 950, passed 10-23-03) Penalty, see § 70.99
Statutory reference:
Authority to abate abandoned vehicle nuisance, see Cal. Veh. Code § 22660.