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(Code 1978, § 6.03.15; Ord. No. 5, 3-15-1971; Ord. No. 96-09, 7-7-1996) <br />Sec. 54-35. Removing vehicles from streets. <br />(a) Members of the police department are authorized to remove, or cause to be removed, a vehicle from a <br />street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by <br />the police department or otherwise maintained by the city, under the circumstances hereinafter <br />enumerated: <br />(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, or causeway, or in any tube, tunnel or <br />under -pass where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic. <br />(2) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the persons <br />in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable <br />to provide for its custody or removal. <br />(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a hazard or <br />obstruction to the normal movement of traffic or snow plowing. <br />(b) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this section and the officer knows or is <br />able to ascertain from the registration records of the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, <br />such officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such <br />removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any <br />such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage. <br />(c) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section and does not know and is not able to <br />ascertain the name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as <br />hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three <br />days, then and in that event, the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent written report of such <br />removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of <br />such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall <br />include a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reasons for <br />such removal, and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored. <br />(Code 1978, § 6.03.16; Ord. No. 5, 3-15-1971) <br />State law reference(s)—Towing of vehicles, Minn. Stats. § 169.041. <br />Sec. 54-36. Parking in areas affected with public interest. <br />Parking of vehicles in areas affected with a public interest shall conform to any stores or designated positions <br />for parking and no vehicle shall be parked or allowed to stand in any area of such parking lot which has been <br />designated or is used for a lane for moving traffic so as to interfere with the movement of traffic thereon. <br />(Code 1978, § 6.03.17; Ord. No. 5, 3-15-1971) <br />Sec. 54-37. Removal of keys from car. <br />Every person parking a passenger automobile on a public street, alley, public parking lot, or place affected <br />with a public interest in the city shall lock the ignition, remove the key and take the key with him. <br />(Code 1978, § 6.03.18; Ord. No. 5, 3-15-1971) <br />(Supp. No. 12, Update 2) <br />Created: 2023-07-25 12:16:53 [EST] <br />Page 6 of 17 <br />