(A) Any police officer may impound any vehicle parked at a place where parking is prohibited, or which has been parked for more than one hour in excess of the time allowed for parking in any place, or which has been involved in two or more violations of traffic ordinances for which citation tags have been issued and not presented as required by §§ 70.17 through 70.20. Any person desiring to redeem such impounded vehicle shall first pay to the Village Clerk a service charge of $5, and in addition thereto, shall pay a storage charge of $0.50 per day for the time said impounded vehicle is in storage.
(B) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from the street or highway in the village, to a garage or other place of safety in the village, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
(1) When the vehicle is left unattended on any bridge where such vehicle is an obstruction to traffic;
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway or street is so disabled as to cause 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; or
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.
(C) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from the street as authorized in this section, and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, such officer shall give prompt notice in writing to the owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor, and of the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event such vehicle has been stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage.
(D) This section besides those reasons enumerated herein shall empower a member of the Police Department to remove from the streets of this village to a garage or other place of safety any vehicle which does not bear current and proper license places thereon.
(E) If the owner of an impounded automobile files with the Mayor a statement under oath that he or she is unable to pay said charges, the Mayor shall have the power to remit all or any part of the storage or impounding charge.
(Prior Code, § 77.70)