No person shall abandon any motor vehicle within the Village
and no person shall leave any motor vehicle within the Village for
such time and under such circumstances as to cause such motor vehicle
reasonably to appear to have been abandoned. Whenever any motor vehicle
has been allowed to remain standing on any street or public place
in the Village for more than 73 hours, the same shall be deemed to
have been left or abandoned within the meaning of this section.
No person shall leave any nonoperable, dismantled, wrecked,
junked, or parts of a dismantled motor vehicle on any street or highway
within the Village.
Prohibition on certain vehicles. See §
16-22T of the Municipal Code of Whitefish Bay.
The Police Department may remove or have removed any motor vehicle left at any place within the Village which reasonably appears to be in violation of §
6-47 or to be lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such motor vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with §
6-51. The Police Department may remove and junk, or cause to be removed and junked by private contract, any motor vehicle left at any place within the Village which reasonably appears to be in violation of §§
6-48 and
6-49.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1804; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 17, Village Code and Ordinances,
Art. I)]
Pursuant to §§ 349.13(3) and 342.40(3)(b), Wis.
Stats., all as amended from time to time, this section of the Municipal
Code applies to all vehicles left standing on a highway in violation
of Chapter 342, 346 or 349, Wis. Stats., disabled vehicles obstructing
a public right-of-way, motor vehicles violating any parking regulation,
and abandoned or nonoperable motor vehicles as defined by this chapter.
Village Police and Public Works personnel, or their agents, are hereby
authorized to remove vehicles in violation of this chapter or Wisconsin
Statutes and to impose the cost of such removal on the owner or the
operator of the vehicle. Such costs may be recovered by fee charged
to release the vehicle from impoundment or by civil forfeiture on
a citation issued under this section.