A.Â
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway
or public parking lot within this Town 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 Superintendent
of Highways, Commissioner of Planning and Development or any police
officer.
B.Â
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway
or public parking lot within the Town where said vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Superintendent of Highways, Commissioner of Planning
and Development or any police officer.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Town 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, such storage charges
not to exceed an amount as set forth by the Town Board, by resolution,
per day or fraction thereof.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The fee schedule is on file
in the Town offices.
It shall be the duty of the authorized Town
official to ascertain, to the extent possible, the owner of the vehicle
or the person having the same in charge 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 Town official shall also, without delay,
report to the Town Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle
removed as provided in this article.
