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Town of Weston, CT
Fairfield County
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[Adopted 7-6-1976 (§§ 13-21 to 13-29 of the 1981 Code)]
The Board of Police Commissioners of the Town may designate tow-away zones, properly marked, in any area in which parking of motor vehicles is prohibited.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
Whenever any motor vehicle shall be found parked illegally in an area designated as a tow-away zone by the Board of Police Commissioners, or whenever a motor vehicle shall be found abandoned thereby constituting a menace to traffic, such vehicle may be removed at the direction of the officer in charge of the Police Department to any motor vehicle pound established hereunder.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The Board of Police Commissioners may create one or more motor vehicle pounds to which motor vehicles may be removed as provided herein. Such pound shall be a public storage garage or such other appropriate place as shall be designated by such Board.
Before any garage or other place of storage shall be designated by the Board of Police Commissioners as a motor vehicle pound, the operator thereof shall furnish the Town with evidence of insurance coverage which shall be adequate to protect the Town against any liability for any claim for damages arising out of the towing or storage of any impounded vehicles.
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The Board of Police Commissioners shall provide such forms and adopt such regulations as may be necessary for the operation of §§ 195-2 through 195-9.
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As to abandoned vehicles which constitute a menace to traffic, the procedure set out in § 14-150 of the General Statutes shall be followed.
The officer directing the impounding of a motor vehicle and the operator of the motor vehicle pound in which the same shall be impounded shall make such prompt report at police headquarters as shall be required by the Board of Police Commissioners. This report will enable the owner or person in charge of such vehicle to be informed as to the nature and circumstances of the violation on account of which such vehicle has been impounded and the place in which it is impounded and from which it may be repossessed by the person legally entitled to possession thereof.
No impounded vehicle shall be released until the person claiming such vehicle shall establish with the Police Department such person's identity and right to possession of the vehicle and until such person shall have signed and delivered a receipt thereof to the operator of the pound.
Before the owner or person in charge of such vehicle shall be entitled to repossess the same, such person shall pay to the pound a towing charge, which shall not exceed an amount designated by the Board of Police Commissioners, plus the cost of storage, which shall not exceed an amount designated by the Board of Police Commissioners. The towing and storage charges shall be a lien upon such a vehicle. Payment of such charges shall not release any person from prosecution for any violation of law which resulted in impounding the vehicle.
If protest shall be made against payment of the towing charge or cost of storage, the pound to which payment is made shall mark upon the receipt evidencing protested payment the words "Paid Under Protest." In such cases it shall be the duty of the Police Department to investigate the matter upon being apprised of such protest and to institute proper proceedings in the Superior Court charging the owner or operator of such vehicle with the violation on account of which the vehicle was impounded, if necessary; provided, however, that as to abandoned motor vehicles which constitute a menace to traffic, the procedure set out in § 14-150 of the General Statutes shall be followed.