A.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway
or public parking lot within this town 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 Highway
Superintendent.
B.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway
or public parking lot within the town where said vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic, said vehicle may be removed by or under
the direction of the Highway Superintendent.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this Article, the Highway Superintendent 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 the fee as set forth from time
to time by resolution of the Town Board.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The current fee schedule is
on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
It shall be the duty of the Highway Superintendent
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 Highway Superintendent shall also, without
delay, report to the Town Clerk the removal and disposition of any
vehicle removed as provided in this Article.
