Whenever the Township of Whitpain shall declare a highway snow
emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to abandon
or park any motor vehicle or other vehicle on any public roadway within
the Township of Whitpain.
Any member of the Whitpain Township Police Department is hereby
authorized to remove any vehicle abandoned or parked upon any public
highway or street in violation of the terms and provisions of this
article and to take any said vehicle to the nearest garage or other
place of safety. The registered owner of any said vehicle shall be
promptly notified, in writing, of the fact of the removal and of the
place to which said vehicle has been removed, where he may obtain
the same upon payment of any and all towing and storage charges.
Any person willfully violating any of the provisions of this
article shall, upon summary conviction before a Magisterial District
Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $50 and not more
than $300 plus the cost of towing the vehicle and the costs of prosecution,
such fines to be collected as like fines are now collected by law.