(a) If a person is convicted under Section 410.04, the motor vehicle, if owned in whole by that person, may be ordered impounded for not less than 30 days or more than 120 days from the date of judgment. The order of impoundment shall include the implied consent of the owner of the vehicle to the storage for insurance coverage purposes.
(b) An order of impoundment issued pursuant to subsection (a) is valid throughout the State. Any peace officer may execute the impoundment order.
(c) The owner of a motor vehicle impounded pursuant to this section is liable for expenses incurred in the removal and storage of the vehicle, whether or not the vehicle is returned to him or her. The vehicle shall be returned to the owner only if the owner pays the expenses for removal and storage. If redemption is not made or the vehicle is not returned as provided in this section within 30 days after the time set in the impoundment order for return of the vehicle, the vehicle shall be considered an abandoned vehicle and disposed of as provided in Section 410.04 (UTC Section 2.5a et seq.).
(d) Nothing in this section affects the rights of a conditional vendor, chattel mortgagee or lessor of a motor vehicle registered in the name of another person as owner who becomes subject to this act.
(Ord. 683. Passed 9-29-99.)