§ 24-120. Removal or impoundment of certain vehicles.

(a)

Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove or have removed a vehicle from a street, alley, roadway or other publicly-owned property to a place of safety or to a facility designated by city removal procedure policy or maintained by the police department, otherwise maintained by the city under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:

(1)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic;

(2)

When a vehicle is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic or 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;

(3)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street, alley or roadway and is so parked as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic;

(4)

When any vehicle is left parked upon a street, alley or roadway for a period in excess of forty-eight (48) hours;

(5)

When any vehicle is parked in violation of Section 24-62;

(6)

When any vehicle is parked in violation of Section 24-53(a)(1), (2), (8) or (9).

(b)

Any unoccupied vehicle of any kind or description found violating any provisions of any of the laws of the city regulating the standing or parking of vehicles is hereby declared to be a nuisance and a menace to the safe and proper regulation of traffic, and such vehicle shall be taken in charge by any police officer, traffic investigator or unarmed police aide and removed from the street, alley, roadway or other publicly-owned property in accordance with the city removal procedure policy.

(Ord. No. 1392, § 2, 11-26-85; Ord. No. 2421, § 2, 1-11-05; Ord. No. 2541, § 7, 1-23-07; Ord. No. 2604, § 3, 11-27-07)

State law reference

Impoundment authorization, A.R.S. § 28-872.