A. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway or public parking lot within this City 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 Superintendent of Streets and Highways or Police Department.
B. 
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway or public parking lot within the City where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under the direction of the Superintendent of Streets and Highways or Police Department.
C. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway within the City where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, said vehicle may be removed by the authority of the Superintendent of Streets and Highways or Police Department.
D. 
When any vehicle is parked in the same location or abandoned for longer than seven consecutive days on any highway or City-owned parking lot within the City where parking is allowed, said vehicle may be removed by the authority of the Chief of Police.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this Article, the Superintendent of Streets and Highways 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 removal charges not to exceed $50, and such storage charges not to exceed $2 per day or fraction thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets and Highways to report the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed to the Police Department, and it shall 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 Superintendent of Streets and Highways shall also, without delay, report to the City Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this Article.