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Amending Chapter 162, Traffic Code - Impounding of Vehicles, of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, to comply with state law changes and to update or eliminate outdated language.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1
Chapter 162 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code 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 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 order be removed and impounded by means of towing to a public pound.
(b) Any vehicle found upon the streets of the City of Saint Paul in such a damaged condition as a result of an accident or disrepair that it cannot be driven and is so located as to constitute an obstruction of the street may be removed and impounded, in a public pound, by the police department, and shall only be surrendered to the duly identified owner thereof or his or her agent upon the payment of the fees hereinafter provided; provide that. However if the owner or operator thereof has requested, or does request, that such vehicle be towed to his, her or to any garage other than the public pound, neither the police department nor anyone else shall order such vehicle to be impounded in a public pound unless the police department considers possession of such vehicle necessary in th...
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