§ 162-26Authority to impound vehicles.
§ 162-27Storage and charges.
§ 162-28Notice of removal; report to Village Clerk.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway or public parking lot within this village during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency which affects that portion of the public highway or parking lot upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned, said vehicle may be removed by or under the direction of the Police Department or other authorized official.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway or public parking lot within the village where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under the direction of the Police Department or other authorized official.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the village police may store or cause such vehicle to be stored 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 person with whom stored, of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal and storage.
It shall be the duty of the village police to ascertain to the extent possible the owner of the vehicle or the person in charge of same and to notify him of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem the same. Said village police shall also, without delay, report to the Village Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this article. Removal of vehicles will be at the cost of the owner.
