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Code of White Pine
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 Enforcement
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 Enforcement
White Pine
Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 : Enforcement
15-705 : Impoundment of vehicles.
- Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove from the streets and impound any vehicle whose operator is arrested, or any vehicle which is illegally parked, abandoned, or otherwise parked so as to constitute an obstruction or hazard to normal traffic. Any vehicle left parked on any street or alley for more than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours without permission from the chief of police shall be presumed to have been abandoned if the owner cannot be located after a reasonable investigation. Such an impounded vehicle shall be stored until the owner claims it, gives satisfactory evidence of ownership, and pays all applicable fines and costs or until it is otherwise lawfully disposed of. After the first twenty-four (24) hours, a daily storage fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per twenty-four (24) hour day shall be imposed on vehicles that are released back to the owner after a hearing or after a seizure hearing. The owner of a vehicle impounded pursuant to this division or his authorized agent may make application to take possession of the vehicle and remove such vehicle from the vehicle pound upon presentation of an application for certificate of title or a certificate of title, and upon payment of the cost of towing the vehicle and all charges which may have accrued for the storage of the vehicle. However, payment of towing and storage fees shall not relieve the owner of responsibility for the violation.
- Any owner who requests a hearing pursuant to § 15-705 may obtain the release of his vehicle from the pound without prepayment of any towing or storage costs; provided, however, as security for the impoundment costs, he shall either make a cash deposit or execute a bond with one (1) or more sureties as approved by the chief of police, payable to the town, in a sum equal to the total impoundment fees at the time of release of the vehicle.
- In each case the officer in charge shall notify the recorder, who shall give a proper receipt for the fee paid, cash deposit, or bond.
- No owner of a vehicle shall evade the payment of any pound fee provided for in this division by representing that he was not operating the vehicle himself at the time of the violation charged. (1978 Code, § 9-601, as amended by Ord. #7-15, June 2015)
Date Last Updated: 11/07/2023
Codification Date: 04/01/1998
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Fred Taylor
Alderman - Tyler Marshall
Alderman - Josh Sinard
Alderman - Ann Strom
Alderman - Jarrad Stump
Alderman - Whitney Woods
City Recorder - Alyson Susong