As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
Any vehicle parked or abandoned on any highway within the Village of Carthage during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency or found unattended where it constitutes an obstruction to traffic or any place where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited or anytime when stopping, standing or parking is prohibited may be removed by the police.
After removal of any vehicle, as provided in this article, the police may provide for the storage of such vehicle in a suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner or person in charge of the vehicle may redeem same upon payment of all expenses and charges actually and necessarily incurred for such removal and storage.
It shall be the duty of the police to ascertain to the extent possible the owner or person in charge of any vehicle removed and stored pursuant to this article and to notify said person of the removal and disposition of such vehicle and of the amount which will be required to redeem same.