[Amended 6-27-2005; 10-10-2006]
Members of the Police Department and Highway
Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle at the owner's
expense from a street, highway or municipal lot to the nearest garage
or other place of safety under circumstances hereinafter enumerated:
A. Any vehicle left unattended upon any bridge when such
vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
B. When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to
constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in
charge of the vehicle are, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated
to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
C. When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street,
highway or municipal lot and is so parked illegally as to constitute
a violation of these ordinances.
D. When any vehicle receives four or more parking tickets within a three-hundred-sixty-five-day period, in accordance with §
130-33B hereof.
E. Tow zone. When a motor vehicle is parked in violation
of the South Berwick Traffic Ordinance or parking ordinances, it may
be towed by any duly authorized wrecker service. Towing will be under
the supervision of the Chief of Police, Public Works Director or their
designee. Towing will take place when there is at least one sign stating
"Tow Zone No Parking" visible to vehicle operator. Within five days
of tow, the Police Department shall send notice to the registered
owner of such vehicle, by certified mail, stating the location, time,
date and cost of such ordered tow. This notice shall include all requirements
for said release of such vehicle.
[Amended 4-13-2009]
No vehicle shall be parked at any time on a
public way as to interfere with municipal snow removal or snow plowing.
Any vehicle found by a police officer or reported by the Public Works
Department during snow removal activities to be so parked shall be
immediately towed any at the owner's expense.
No person shall ride a bicycle on the sidewalk
in the business section, nor on any street on the sidewalk except
in a prudent manner and at a reasonable rate of speed, yielding the
right-of-way to pedestrians and giving audible signal of approach.
[Added 10-10-2006]
Crosswalks will be determined by the Public
Works Director.