[Amended 3-7-2019 by L.L.
No. 1-2019]
A.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway
or public parking lot within this municipality 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 Mayor, the Deputy Mayor or the Superintendent of Buildings.
B.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway
or public parking lot within the municipality where said vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor or the Superintendent
of Buildings.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor or the Superintendent of
Buildings 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 reasonable expenses actually and
necessarily incurred in effecting such removal and storage.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor, the Deputy
Mayor or the Superintendent of Buildings 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 same. Said Village
official shall also, without delay, report to the Village Clerk the
removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this
article.
