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(a) Under the circumstances set forth in Sections 8-3-30(6) through 8-3-30(13) or 8-3-30(15), employees of the Town, acting in their official capacity, and officers of the Town Marshal’s Department may, and they are hereby authorized to, temporarily and for a period of seventy-two (72) hours, immobilize such vehicles by installing on or attaching to such vehicle a device designed to restrict the normal movement of such vehicle. If such vehicle is so immobilized, the person installing or attaching such device shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a notice, in writing, on a form provided by the Town Marshal, advising the owner, driver or person in charge of such vehicle that such vehicle has been immobilized by the Town for violation of one (1) or more specified provisions of this Chapter, and that release from such immobilization may be obtained at a designated place; that, unless arrangements are made for the release of such vehicle within seventy-two (72) hours, the vehicle will be removed from the streets at the direction of the Town Marshal’s Department, by employees of the Town acting in their official capacity, or by an agent of the Town; and that removing or attempting to remove the device before a release is obtained is unlawful, and containing such information as the Town Marshal shall deem necessary.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to remove or attempt to remove any such device before a release is obtained as herein provided, or to move any such vehicle before the same is released by the Town Marshal’s Department, Municipal Court Clerk or Municipal Judge; and where such vehicle has been properly immobilized in such a manner, a fee shall be charged by the Town Marshal’s Department, Municipal Court Clerk or Municipal Judge before releasing such vehicle, in accordance with Section 8-3-50.

(c) Parking restrictions, if any, otherwise applicable shall not apply while such vehicle is so immobilized. If the vehicle has remained immobilized for a period of seventy-two (72) hours and release has not been obtained, the Town Marshal’s Department or employee of the Town causing such immobilization shall have the vehicle removed and impounded.

(d) If a violator of the restrictions on idling, stopping, standing or parking under this Chapter does not respond to a penalty assessment notice affixed to such motor vehicle, by appearance at the Municipal Court at the date and time specified in the notice, by previously arranging for payment with the Municipal Court Clerk or by other disposition of the charge, the Municipal Court Clerk shall send a notice that default judgment has been entered by the Court, by mail to the registered owner of the vehicle to which the original summons or notice was affixed. If the mailed notice is disregarded for a period of seven (7) days and the owner has not appeared at the Municipal Court Clerk’s office or Town Marshal’s Department and made payment, the vehicle upon which the illegally parked notice was affixed may be temporarily immobilized and impounded in accordance with this Article or the Town may exercise any available legal remedy. (Prior code 10.12.040; Ord. 1288 §1, 2008; Ord. 1488 §1, 2019)