A.
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 Town Board,
or its designee.
B.
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 Town Board, or its designee.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the
Village Board, or its designee, 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 per day or fraction thereof
as set by the Town Board.
It shall be the duty of the Town Board, or its designee, 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. The Town Board, or its designee, shall also, without delay,
report to the Town Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle
removed as provided in this article.