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4 r • CHAPTER XII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Section 166: IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES. (a) Any vehicle parked in such a position that it constitutes an obstruction to traffic or is unlawfully parked in any prohibited or restricted area, or is parked or so used as to endanger or likely to endanger any user or potential user of any public highway, or used in violation of the traffic ordinances of the city of Everett or of any rule or regulation promulgated in connection therewith by the Chief of Police acting in conjunction with the city council, is hereby declared to be a nuisance. Such nuisance may be summarily abated by removing the vehicle by or under the direction of a police officer by means of towing or otherwise. (b) In the event that an operator of a vehicle is arrested and placed in custody and is not in condition to drive the vehicle to a place of safety and there is no other person present who may properly act as agent for such operator to drive the vehicle to a place of safety, or the operator of a vehicle is incapacitated as the result of an accident and is unable to care for his property, and there is no other person present who may properly act as agent for such operator in the care of his vehicle, any officer at the scene of such arrest or accident is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle to a place of safety. (c) All towing ana storage charges on each vehicle impounded as provided in this section shall be paid by the owner or his agent if said vehicle be redeemed. The impounding of a vehicle shall not prevent or preclude the institution and prosecution of criminal proceedings in the police court, or elsewhere, charging the violator with any violation of the law on account of which such vehicle was impounded. Section 167: DRIPPING OIL, ETC. , ON STREETS. No oil, gasoline or like fluid shall be spilled or allowed to drop from any vehicle on any paved street or public way in the city of Everett. If the spilling of oil, gasoline or like fluid creates a fire hazard, any peace officer or member of the fire department is authorized to provide for the removal of the vehicle, from which such oil, gasoline or like fluid is spilled or dropped, to a place of safety under the provisions of section / 4 63 of this ordinance. Section 168: ABANDONED VEHICLES. Any vehicle abandoned upon any public highway of the city of Everett is hereby declared to be a nuisance subject to summary abatement by removal from the highway by or under the direction of the Chief of Police of the city of Everett to a place of storage. Such abandoned vehicles shall be disposed of as provided by section 143 of the Washington Motor Vehicle ti.ct. -51-