[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.