Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department, or otherwise maintained by this city under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.
(A) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, causeway, subway, tube, or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;
(B) When a vehicle upon a street 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;
(C) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic;
(D) When a vehicle is found being driven upon the streets and is not in proper condition to be driven;
(E) When a vehicle is left unattended upon a street or any municipal parking area continuously for more than 48 hours and may be presumed to be abandoned;
(F) When the driver of such vehicle is taken into custody by the Police Department and such vehicle would thereby be left unattended upon the street; and
(G) When removal is necessary in the interest of public safety because of fire, flood, storm, snow, or other emergency reason.
(Prior Code, § 70.013) (Ord. 65-3, passed 4-19-1965; Ord. 94-2, passed 2-7-1994)