A.
When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any highway or public
parking lot within this Town 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 the Monroe County
Sheriff's Department.
B.
When any vehicle is found unattended on any highway or public parking
lot within the Town where said vehicle constitutes an obstruction
to traffic or highway-related construction, said vehicle may be removed
by or under the direction of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in this article, the
Monroe County Sheriff's Department 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.
It shall be the duty of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department
to ascertain to the extent possible the owner of the vehicle or other
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 Sheriff's Department shall also without
delay report the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as
provided in this article to the Town Clerk.