§ 26-1. Authority to impound.

Police officers are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department, and being within the City of Coca Beach, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated:

(1)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, causeway, or viaduct, where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.

(2)

When a vehicle upon a street is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, or the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody and removal.

(3)

When a vehicle is found being operated upon the streets and is not in proper condition.

(4)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic.

(5)

When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street continuously for more than twenty-four (24) hours and may be presumed to be abandoned.

(6)

When the driver of such vehicle is taken into custody by the police department and such vehicle would thereby be left unattended upon a street.

(7)

When removal is necessary in the interest of public safety because of fire, flood, storm, or other emergency reason.

(8)

Any person taken into custody pursuant to Section 316.192 or 316.193, Florida Statutes 1979, may be released without posting bond, if such person agrees to the impounding in a garage authorized by this chapter of the vehicle owned and driven by such person or to surrender his driver's license to insure such person's appearance in court to answer the charges and pay such fine as may be assessed.

(9)

No vehicle impounded in an authorized garage as herein provided shall be released there from until the charges for towing such vehicle into the garage and storage charges have been paid. The charge for towing or removal of any such vehicle and storage charges shall be fixed by the county judge, such charges to be based upon a computation of all actual expenses entering into the current cost of such services. Such charge or charges shall be posted for public inspection in the office of the traffic violations bureau and in any authorized garage.

(Ord. No. 384, § 2, 1-20-1972; Ord. No. 627, § 15, 7-2-1980; Ord. No. 668, § 12, 8-20-1981)