[Amended 9-21-1999 by L.L. No. 5-1999]
A. When any vehicle and/or boat trailer is abandoned
on any highway or public parking lot within this Village during a
snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency which affects that
portion of the public highway or parking lot upon which said vehicle
and/or boat trailer is parked or abandoned, said vehicle and/or boat
trailer may be removed under the direction of the Chief of Police.
B. When any vehicle and/or boat trailer is found unattended
on any public highway or public parking lot within the Village where
said vehicle and/or boat trailer constitutes an obstruction to traffic,
said vehicle and/or boat trailer may be removed under the direction
of the Chief of Police.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Village of Penn Yan 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 and storage,
such storage charges not to exceed $10 per day or fraction thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police
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 the same. Said Chief of Police shall also, without delay,
report to the Village Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle
removed as provided in this article.