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AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING ABANDONED VEHICLES AND OTHER PROPERTY A
NUISANCE AND IMPOSING A DUTY ON POLICE TO IMPOUND CREATING A
LIEN ON IMPOUNDED PROPERTY FOR CITY, PROVIDING FOR REDEMPTION
OF ABANDONED PROPERTY OTHER THAN MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDING FOR
AUCTION SALE OF ABANDONED PROPERTY AND FOR NOTICE OF SUCH SALE,
PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF SALE AND PROCEDURE FOR DISPOSING OF
IMPOUNDED MOTOR VEHICLES, PROVIDING FOR DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS
OF SALES AND THE KEEPING OF RECORDS ON SUCH PROPERTY.
Sec. 1 DECLARED A NUISANCE: DUTY OF POLICE TO IMPOUND.
Any vehicle or other property or obstruction, placed, left standing,
parked, erected or lying in violation of any ordinance of the city or left un-
attended for more than forty-eight continuous hours in or on any public street,
alley, sidewal4, park or other public place of the city is declared to be
a nuisance, and any such property when so found shall be removed summarily
by any police officer of the city and taken to the place to be pounded and shall
be kept there until redeemed or sold as provided in this article.
Sea. 2 CITY'S LIEN ON IMPOUNDED PROPERTY.
The City shall have a lien on such impounded personal property as
provided in the preceeding section for all costs incurred in impounding,
storing and advertising such property. Such lien shall be prior and superior
to all other liens of every kind, save and except liens for ad valorem taxes,
and the city may retain possession thereof until all costs are paid and may
sell the same as provided in this article.
Sec. 3 REDEMPTION OF IMPOUNDED PROPERTY.
The owner or any person legally entitled to possession of any impounded
personal property as provided for in this article may redeem the same as follows:
(a) BEFORE SALE. By paying to the Chief of Police the impounding fee
and any other actual expenses incurred by the city in impounding and keeping the
impounded property, as determined by the chief of police.
(b) AFTER SALE By paying to the buyer at the auction sale double
the amount paid by him for such personal property and any reasonable expenses
incurred by him for keeping same; provided that the property must be redeemed
from the auction buyer within thirty days after the date of the auction sale,
excluding the date of sale, otherwise, title to the property shall become
absolute in the auction buyer.
Sec. 4. WHEN CHIEF OF POLICE TO AUCTION IMPOUNDED PROPERTY.
When any personal property, other than motor vehicles, is not redeemed
within sixty days after being impounded, and when any motor vehicle is not
redeemed after compliance by the chief of police with the provisions of section
6 of this code, the Chief of Police shall sell the same at public auction to
satisfy the lien of the City.
Sec. 5. NOTICE OF SAFE OF IMPOUNDED PROPERTY OTHER THAN MOTOR VEHICLES.