A.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway
or public parking lot within this Village during a snowstorm, flood,
fire or other 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 Board of Trustees or the Village Police Department.
B.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway
or public parking lot within the Village where said vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Board of Trustees or the Village Police Department.
C.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway
or public parking lot within this Village where stopping, standing
or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Board of Trustees or the Village Police Department.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Village Police Department 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, such
charges not to exceed $25, together with any charges for storage,
such storage charge not to exceed $10 per day or fraction thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Village representative
causing or directing the impoundment of a vehicle 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 representative causing or directing the impoundment
of a vehicle shall also without delay report the removal and disposition
of any vehicle removed as provided in this article to a Village police
officer.
