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2 <br /> officer may take custody of a vehicle and provide for its prompt removal to a place <br /> of safety under any of the following circumstances: <br /> 1. Whenever any police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> stopped or parked upon any roadway or alley, whether attended or unattended, the <br /> officer is authorized to provide for the removal of the vehicle or require the driver or <br /> other person in charge of the vehicle to move the vehicle to a position off the <br /> roadway or alley or away from the main traveled portion thereof; <br /> 2. Whenever any police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> unattended upon any highway where the vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic <br /> or jeopardizes public safety; <br /> 3. Whenever a police officer finds an unattended vehicle at the scene of an <br /> accident or when the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident is physically or <br /> mentally incapable, or too intoxicated, to decide upon steps to be taken to protect <br /> his or her property; <br /> 4. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is arrested and taken into custody by a <br /> police officer; <br /> 5. Whenever a police officer discovers a vehicle which he determines to be a <br /> stolen vehicle; <br /> 6. Whenever any police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> standing or parked in a designated towaway zone; <br /> 7. Whenever a police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> without a special license plate, placard, or decal indicating that the vehicle is being <br /> used to transport a disabled person under RCW 46.16.381 parked in a stall or <br /> space that is clearly and conspicuously marked, as described in the city's parking <br /> ordinance, as a parking space or stall for a disabled person, on private property <br /> without charge or on public property; <br /> 8. Whenever any police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> standing or parked in a fire lane or within fifteen feet of any fire hydrant whether on <br /> public or private property; <br /> 9. Whenever a police officer or parking enforcement officer finds a vehicle <br /> parked in a public right-of-way or on other publicly owned or controlled property in <br /> violation of any law, ordinance or regulation and there are four or more parking <br /> infractions issued against the vehicle for each of which a person has failed to <br /> respond, failed to appear at a requested hearing, or failed to pay an adjudicated <br /> parking infraction for at least forty-five days from the date of the filing of the notice of <br /> infraction; <br /> Page '`? of 25 <br /> 23 <br />