[Amended 4-17-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001]
A. 
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway or public parking lot within this Village during a snow emergency as defined in Subsection B hereof, a flood, a 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 Commissioner of Police.
B. 
Declaration of snow emergency. The parking of vehicles is prohibited on all public highways within the Village during a snow emergency. A snow emergency shall exist either upon declaration by the Mayor or from the time when there are at least four inches of snow on the ground and shall continue for 18 hours thereafter. For purposes of this section, a "public highway" shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
[Amended 8-6-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013]
Tulip Avenue
Floral Boulevard
Floral Parkway
Plainfield Avenue
Emerson Avenue
Lowell Avenue
Covert Avenue
Iris Avenue, between Tulip Avenue and Carnation Avenue
King Street, between Plainfield Avenue and Flower Avenue
Landau Avenue, between Tulip Avenue and the Elmont border
Carnation Avenue, between Tulip Avenue and Raff Avenue
Florence Street
Adelaide Street
Aspen Street, between Floral Parkway and East Poplar Street
Bellmore Street, between Floral Parkway and Carnation Avenue
Terrace Avenue
Jericho Turnpike
C. 
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 Commissioner of Police.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the Commissioner of Police 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 $100 per day or fraction thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Commissioner 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 same. Said Commissioner of Police shall also without delay report the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in this article to the Village Clerk.