§ 71.070. WHEN IMPOUNDMENT AUTHORIZED FOR UNATTENDED/ABANDONED VEHICLES.

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 by the City under the following circumstances:

(A)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, causeway 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 or the person in charge of the vehicle is, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody and removal.

(C)

When any vehicle is parked continuously upon a street for more than seventy-two (72) hours, prior to removal, procedures must be followed in accordance with Section 90.02(B).

(D)

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.

(E)

When the driver of such vehicle is taken into custody by the Police Department and such vehicle would thereby be left unattended upon a street.

(F)

When removal is necessary in the interests of public safety because of fire, flood, storm, or other emergency reason.

(Ord. No. 07-18 , § 15, passed 6/5/18)