A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, or agent or employee thereof,
to leave or to suffer or permit to be left any vehicle or other property
upon any public highway or municipal parking area beyond the period
such vehicle or property may lawfully be left parked or upon such
public highway or municipal parking area, or in such position thereon
as shall unlawfully obstruct or impede vehicular or pedestrian traffic
or constitute a condition dangerous to such traffic, or which shall
constitute an abandoned vehicle as the same is defined by § 1224
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B.
In the event that any vehicle or property shall unlawfully obstruct
or impede traffic, or remain on a public highway or municipal parking
area for a continuous period exceeding 12 hours beyond the lawful
period of permitted continuous use of any public highway or municipal
parking area, or if such vehicle or property shall be deemed an abandoned
vehicle pursuant to § 1224 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law
of the State of New York, then such vehicle or property shall be deemed
to have been abandoned and the Police Chief or his designated representative
within the Police Department may remove or cause to be removed any
such abandoned vehicle or property to the City yard or yards or elsewhere
as he may deem advisable.
C.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any public highway within
the City during a snowstorm, flood, fire or other public emergency,
said vehicle may be removed and stored by the Police Chief or his
designated representative within the Police Department if he deems
such removal advisable for public safety or convenience.
A.
Any vehicle which is deemed to have been abandoned under the provisions
of this article or under any other provision of law or ordinance and
which has been removed by the Police Department may be disposed of
by the procedures set forth in § 1224 of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law of the State of New York.
B.
Any vehicle impounded as a stolen vehicle for which the owner cannot
be located (Vehicle and Traffic Law, § 242, Subdivision
2) may be disposed of by the procedures set forth in § 1224,
Subdivision 5, of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New
York. Any vehicle impounded due to a lack of a motor vehicle identification
number (§ 423-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law) may be disposed
of by the procedures set forth in § 1224, Subdivision 5,
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
A.
The owner of any such vehicle or other property removed from any public highway or municipal parking area under any provision of this article may redeem such property at any time after its removal, but prior to the sale or destruction thereof, upon payment to the Parking Violations Bureau in accordance with the provisions set forth in Chapter 70, Parking Violations Bureau, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Newburgh.
[Amended 10-26-1998 by Ord. No. 19-98; 11-26-2012 by Ord. No. 9-2012]
B.
Any vehicle impounded under § 511-b of the Vehicle and
Traffic Law may become the property of the Police Department as set
forth in § 511-b, Subdivision 4, of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law.
