As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
DELINQUENT
A parking ticket, warrant or summons that has not been answered
by the required appearance date, or for which adjudged fines and applicable
surcharges have not been paid.
IMMOBILIZE or IMMOBILIZATION
The act of placing on a parked motor vehicle a mechanical
device known as a boot, designed to be attached to the wheel or tire
or other part of such vehicle so as to prohibit its usual manner of
movement.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
The East Rutherford Police Department and its members, agents,
and officers employed by such department.
REMOVE or REMOVAL
The act of towing a parked motor vehicle, which shall be
placed and stored in a location designated by the Police Department
and shall be held until it is released or dispose of pursuant to applicable
law.
VEHICLE(S) OF A SCOFFLAW or VEHICLES OF SCOFFLAWS
A vehicle or vehicles against which three or more tickets,
warrants, summonses or fines for parking violations or any local law,
or any combination thereof, which are returnable in the East Rutherford
Municipal Court, have been issued, anyone of which is delinquent for
30 days or more or any other vehicles owned by a person, corporation
or other concern who also owns a vehicle subject to immobilization
or removal by virtue of this chapter.
The Chief of Police shall develop procedures necessary to effectuate
the purposes and provisions of this article, including but not limited
to specifications for the manner and content of notice to the public
concerning the operation of this article, the content of notice to
the registered owner of a vehicle immobilized or removed under this
article; the place of storage of such vehicles; the time and place
such vehicles may be released; and the fees for immobilization or
removal of a vehicle that shall compensate the Police Department and/or
a contractor that performed such functions on the Police Department's
behalf for such immobilization or removal, as well as the administrative
costs of the vehicles of scofflaws removal program.