§ 16-21. Impoundment.

When any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or municipally owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, such officer may require the driver or other person in charge of such vehicle to remove the same to a position in compliance with this chapter. When any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street or municipally owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, such officer may impound such unlawfully parked vehicle and to provide for the removal thereof and remove the same to a convenient garage or other facility or place of safety; provided that if any charge is placed against such vehicle for cost of removal or storage, or both, by any person called upon to assist therewith, the same shall be paid prior to removal from the place of storage or safekeeping.

(Code 1984, Title 6, Ch. 16)