A.Â
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 any regular
or special police officer of the Village of Fort Plain Police Department.
B.Â
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 any regular or special police officer of the Village
of Fort Plain Police Department.
C.Â
All regular and special police officers of the Village
of Fort Plain Police Department shall have the power to cause the
removal and disposal of any vehicle left unattended for more than
24 hours within the right-of-way of any street within the village
or any other public property of the village.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this Article, the village 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 a fee as set by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees.
The village shall in no event be liable to any private contractor
or owner for such charges.
It shall be the duty of any regular or special
police officer of the Village of Fort Plain 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
the same. Said police officer shall also, without delay, report to
the Village Clerk the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed
as provided in this Article.
In the case of unclaimed vehicles under this
Article, the Village Clerk or Deputy Village Clerk, or other village
official designated by the Board of Trustees, may sell the same at
public sale. Notice of such sale shall be posted conspicuously in
at least three public places in the village at least six days before
the date of the sale. The official conducting the sale may, in his
discretion, give other publicity of such sale, or he may delay the
sale in the interest of justice.
