[Ord. 2192, §1]
VEHICLE
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and transport persons or property or pull machinery and shall include, without limitation: automobiles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, tractors, or any part or portion thereof.
[Ord. 2036, §2; Ord. 2192, §1]
The police department is hereby authorized to remove or to have removed any vehicle from the streets or other public places to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department or otherwise maintained by the city under the following conditions:
(a) 
When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(b) 
When a vehicle upon a street or highway is so disabled to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person in charge of the vehicle is, by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(c) 
When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic, or so as to obstruct the use of any trafficway or alleyway adjoining said street; any time a vehicle is parked in a prohibited area that is so designated by signs or other official markings; and any time a vehicle is parked upon a street without having valid license plates properly displayed thereon.
(d) 
Whenever an operator of a vehicle is arrested or detained by a law enforcement officer, and such arrest or detention would leave such vehicle unattended.
(e) 
Whenever a motor vehicle is parked upon any property owned or maintained or operated by the city for the parking of motor vehicles for a longer period of time than is lawfully permitted for a vehicle to remain parked thereon without regard to parking charges.
(f) 
Whenever a motor vehicle is found unattended upon any property owned or controlled by the city not devoted to the parking of motor vehicles.
(g) 
Whenever a motor vehicle upon any street or highway is left unattended in such a manner that the vehicle is inoperable, (not resting upon the tires, or, without its engine, transmission, or any essential part of the engine or transmission); and after a notice having been placed on the vehicle for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours that the vehicle would be subject to being impounded if not removed within such twenty-four-hour period.
[Ord. 2036, §2; Ord. 2636, §1; Ord. 2751,§1]
Any such vehicle shall be impounded until claimed or disposed of; provided, that the police department shall have the option, when such vehicle is registered to a resident of the city, to cause the same to be returned to the residence of the registered owner and the cost of the towing of such vehicle shall be assessed and paid by the registered owner thereof.
[Ord. 2036, §2]
In addition to said tow-in and storage costs, before any such vehicle is released, the person applying for same shall satisfy any outstanding traffic tickets issued in connection with the operation of such vehicle, including any ticket issued in connection with the towing, either by payment to the municipal court or by posting bond for appearance in municipal court.