[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
It shall be unlawful for any person or any owner to leave, suffer
or permit to be left, any vehicle upon any public street, highway
or public property of the Borough, in excess of the time, or any vehicle
found wrecked, abandoned, illegally parked or stored, or without a
current license plate or current inspection sticker, or both, or in
violation of the manner provided in any ordinance of the Borough or
by the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any provisions
thereof where parking is prohibited under the authority of any ordinance
of the Borough or the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any vehicle so left is hereby declared to be a nuisance and such nuisance
may be summarily abated by removing the vehicle by or under the direction
of a police officer of the Borough by means of towing or otherwise
to the motor vehicle pound herein established.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998; as amended by Ord. 712-02, 5/13/2002,
§ 1; and by Ord. 731-05, 6/13/2005, § 3]
There is hereby created a motor pound to which a motor vehicle
or other vehicles parked in violation of parking regulations of the
Borough or of the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
may be removed and impounded by any police officer of the Borough.
The Borough Manager shall maintain a list of the businesses designated
as official vehicle pound designation locations, which may be amended
from time to time by Borough Council.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998; as amended by Ord. 731-05, 6/13/2005,
§ 4]
1. The operator of such pound herein designated, prior to qualifying
as an official pound, shall furnish to the Borough a certificate of
public liability insurance indemnifying the Borough in an amount of
not less than $500,000 for each person injured, not less than $50,000
for property damage and not less than $1,000,000 for each accident
from liability arising from negligence of any employee of the Borough
or any employee of the herein designated pound while in the act of
removal of vehicle from place of parking to the pound.
2. The operator of such pound hereinabove designated shall also post
with the Borough Manager a bond in an amount as required by law. Said
bond shall be executed by such owner or operator as principal, and
by a surety company authorized to do business in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, as surety, approved as to form by the Borough Solicitor
and conditioned that the principal will faithfully perform duties
as salvor of impounded vehicles and that he will indemnify the owners
thereof against any loss of or injury to the same or any article attached
to or contained therein while in the custody of the poundkeeper.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
The impounding of a vehicle shall not prevent or preclude the
institution and prosecution of criminal proceedings charging the violator
thereof with any violation of the law.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
The owner or operator of any garage authorized to receive and
keep impounded vehicles shall on or before day 10 of each month file
his claim with the Borough Council for towing and impounding charges,
not exceeding those herein fixed, accruing to him upon vehicles redeemed
or sold, as herein provided, during the preceding month in accordance
with the provisions of this Part, which claim shall be sworn to by
him under oath as being accurate and justly due and shall be personally
approved in writing on the face thereof by the Chief of Police in
charge.