Ordinance 869-82 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 1 2. Members of the Police Department are authorized to remove and impound 2 any abandoned vehicle, automobile hulk or abandoned junk motor vehicle found on a 3 highway by means of towing or otherwise to the nearest garage or other place of safety 4 or to a garage designated or maintained by the Police Department or otherwise 5 maintained by the local authority. 6 3. Whenever an officer removes and impounds a vehicle from a highway as 7 authorized in subsection (1) of this section, he shall as soon as practicable give or cause 8 personal notice to be given in writing to the owner of such vehicle, if any record exists 9 of the registered or legal owner in the records of the authority last licensing such 10 vehicle, of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which 11 such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the 12 proprietor of such garage. 13 4. Whenever an officer removes and impounds a vehicle from a highway 14 under subsection (1) of this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the 15 name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as 16 hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within 17 a period of three days, then and in that event, the officer shall immediately send or 18 cause to be sent written report of such removal by mail to the Department and shall 19 file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any garage in which the vehicle may be 20 stored. Such notice shall include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time, 21 and place from which removed, the reasons for such removal, and name of the garage or 22 place where the vehicle is stored. 23 5. Any costs incurred in the removal and storage of an impounded vehicle 24 shall be a lien upon the vehicle. All towing and storage charges on each vehicle 25 impounded shall be paid by the owner or his agent if the vehicle is redeemed. In the 26 case of abandoned vehicles, all costs of removal and storage shall be paid by the owner 27 or his agent if the vehicle is redeemed, but if not redeemed, such costs shall be 28 received from the proceeds of sale. 29 6. The impounding of a vehicle shall not preclude charging the violator with 30 any violation of the law on account of which such vehicle was impounded. 31 7. Either a registered or legal owner may claim an impounded vehicle by 32 payment of all charges that have accrued to the time of reclamation, unless the vehicle -6-