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Amending Chapter 162 of the Legislative Code to permit the impounding of vehicles during a continuous winter parking restriction on non-snow emergency routes.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
Section 1.
The Legislative Code Chapter 162, Impounding of Vehicles, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 162.01. Authority to remove.
(a) Any vehicle, wherever found, in violation of the ordinances of the City of Saint Paul or the laws of the State of Minnesota, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and the same may be summarily abated by or under the direction or at the request of a police officer by removing and impounding such vehicle, in a public pound, by means of towing or otherwise, and shall only be surrendered to the duly identified owner thereof or his or her agent upon the payment of the fees hereinafter provided. Additionally during a snow emergency or winter parking restriction as declared pursuant to Chapter 161, the director of the department of public works, in cooperation with the chief of police, may authorize and direct that any vehicle cited or tagged for violation of a snow emergency or winter parking restriction order be removed and impounded by means of towing to a public pound.
Section 2.
That the remainder of Chapter 162 shall remain in full force and effect, without amendment, as if fully set forth herein.
Section 3.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its passage, approval and publication.