A.
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 the Department
of Public Works.
B.
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 the Code Enforcement Officer, Village Clerk and Superintendent
of Public Works.
After removal of any vehicle as provided in
this article, the Department of Public Works 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 shall not exceed a rate set from time to time
by the Board of Trustees.
It shall be the duty of the Village Clerk 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
same. Said Department of Public Works shall also without delay report
the removal and disposition of any vehicle removed as provided in
this article to the Village Clerk.