A.
When any vehicle is parked or 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 is parked or abandoned,
said vehicle may be removed by or under the direction of the Town
of Southampton Police Department.
B.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway
or public parking lot within the Village where said vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Town of Southampton Police Department.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Town of Southampton Police Department 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 $3 per day
or fraction thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Town of Southampton
Police Department 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 same. Said Police Department shall
also without delay report the removal and disposition of any vehicle
removed as provided in this article to the Village Clerk.
