City of Sunbury, PA
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2022-10-24
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 163 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article VI Removal and Impounding of Illegally Parked Vehicles
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Community Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office
- Ch 8 Emergency Management
- Ch 11 Fire Department
- Ch 15 Housing Authority
- Ch 17 Insurance
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 21 Meetings, Council
- Ch 24 Municipal Authority
- Ch 28 Officers and Employees
- Ch 33 Planning Commission
- Ch 35 Police Force
- Ch 37 Police Pension Fund
- Ch 39 (Reserved)
- Ch 40 Pension Plans, Nonuniform
- Ch 43 Search Warrants, Administrative
- Ch 44 Shade Trees
- Ch 47 (Reserved)
- Ch 49 Blighted Property Review Committee
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 53 Air Pollution
- Ch 58 Animals and Fowl
- Ch 64 Bicycles
- Ch 68 Building Construction and Occupancy
- Ch 79 Dumping
- Ch 82 (Reserved)
- Ch 86 Fire Department Cost Recovery
- Ch 88 (Reserved)
- Ch 89 Fireworks
- Ch 91 Flood Control Property
- Ch 92 Floodplain Management
- Ch 94 Retail Food Facilities
- Ch 99 Handbills and Littering
- Ch 101 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 102 (Reserved)
- Ch 103 (Reserved)
- Ch 106 Licensed Occupations
- Ch 107 (Reserved)
- Ch 109 Market, Curbstone
- Ch 110 (Reserved)
- Ch 111 (Reserved)
- Ch 113 Noise
- Ch 121 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 124 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 130 Property Maintenance
- Ch 131 Property, Nuisance
- Ch 132 Property, Commercial
- Ch 132A Quality of Life Ticketing
- Ch 133 Recycling
- Ch 134 Residential Rental Property
- Ch 135 (Reserved)
- Ch 139 Sewers
- Ch 141 Special Events and Private Events
- Ch 143 Stormwater Management
- Ch 145 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 148 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 151 Taxation
- Ch 157 (Reserved)
- Ch 159 (Reserved)
- Ch 163 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 163 Art VI Removal and Impounding of Illegally Parked Vehicles
- § 163-30 Authorization for removal and impoundment.
- § 163-31 Liability of owner or operator for fine or penalty.
- § 163-32 Restrictions upon removal of vehicles.
- Ch 166 Vehicles, Inoperable
- Ch 169 Waste Management
- Ch 172 Water
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A180 (Reserved)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Sunbury Police Department is hereby authorized
to remove and impound or to order the removal and impounding, by a
private contractor meeting all legal requirements for the impoundment
of vehicles, of any vehicle parked on any of the streets, highways
or property owned by the City in violation of any provision of the
law or of any ordinance of the City, provided that no such vehicle
shall be removed or impounded except in strict adherence to the provisions
of this article.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 163-44, Approved storage garages designated; § 163-45, Bonding of garages; § 163-46, Towing and storage charges, § 163-47, Notification of removal and impounding; § 163-48, Payment of charges; protests; and § 163-49, Records of vehicles removed and impounded, of the 1977 Code, which immediately followed this section, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The payment of towing and storage charges levied
from a towing agency shall not relieve the owner or operator of any
vehicle from liability for any fine or penalty for violation of any
law or ordinance on account of which such vehicle was removed and
impounded.
No vehicle shall be removed under the authority
of this article if, at the time of the intended removal thereof, the
owner or person for the time being in charge of such vehicle is present
and expresses a willingness and intention to remove such vehicle immediately.
