A. 
During and after a snowstorm or other public emergency, the Superintendent of Public Works shall have the authority to suspend parking privileges on any street in the City of Glens Falls. The Superintendent of Public Works shall notify the Police Department of the streets to be closed to vehicular traffic, and the Police Department shall thereafter give at least one hour's notice to owners or other persons in charge of parked vehicles to remove said vehicles from the designated streets.
B. 
When any vehicle is abandoned or parked on any street within the City during a snowstorm, flood, fire or any other public emergency which affects that portion of the public street upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned and, after at least one hour's notice to the owner or other person in charge of said vehicle, said vehicle may be removed pursuant to authorization of the Mayor, or any Councilman, any policeman, the Superintendent of Public Works or the Assistant Superintendent of Public Works.
C. 
When any vehicle is found unattended on any street within this City where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed, without notice, by any policeman.
D. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within this City where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed, without notice, by any policeman.
E. 
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this section, the Department of Public Works or Police Department, as may be appropriate in a particular matter, may store such vehicle in a suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner, or person in charge of the vehicle, may redeem the same upon payment to the Department of Public Works or Police Department of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal. Removal charges shall not exceed $50 and storage charges shall not exceed $5 per day or fraction thereof.
F. 
The Department of Public Works or Police Department shall without delay report the removal or the disposition of any vehicle removed as provided herein, and it shall be the duty of such Police Department to ascertain to the extent possible the owner of the vehicle or the person having charge of the same and notify him of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem the same.
The Common Council of the City of Glens Falls does hereby designate the Chief of Police of the City of Glens Falls as agent of the City of Glens Falls for the purpose of removing and disposing of abandoned vehicles pursuant to § 1224 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law and regulations of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. In addition the Chief of Police is covered by the laws of the State of New York and Rules of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.