Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code Ch. 10.08 Authority to Remove Vehicles

The sheriff shall remove to a safe place every vehicle which has been parked or left standing upon a highway for 72 or more consecutive hours.

(Code 1981, § 10.08.010; Ord. No. 15, § 1(part), 1974; Ord. No. 92, § 1, 1977)

As used in this chapter, the term "safe place" includes, but is not confined to, any garage, parking lot, or open space, owned by, maintained by, or under the jurisdiction of the county, and also every privately owned garage, the owner or proprietor of which will accept such vehicles.

(Code 1981, § 10.08.020; Ord. No. 15, § 1(part), 1974)

• Establishment of fee to reimburse the city for the actual costs incurred by the city in connection with the towing and impounding of vehicles; authorized.

A. The city council, by adoption of a resolution, may establish a fee to reimburse the city for the actual costs incurred by the city in connection with the proper removal or impoundment of any vehicle from a location within the city, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or the California Vehicle Code, or the storage of such vehicle. The fee shall be imposed only upon the registered owner of the vehicle that was properly removed, impounded or stored or upon the agent of that owner.

B. Owners of vehicles that are released from being impounded or stored shall be exempt from the payment of this fee upon submission of verifiable proof that the vehicle was reported stolen at the time when the vehicle was removed or impounded or are otherwise exempt from the payment of administrative fees pursuant to the provisions of Vehicle Code § 22850.5.

C. The fee shall be due and owing to the city at the time of the release of the vehicle and may be collected by the county sheriff's department or by the city manager's designee. Towing companies and impound companies that collect fees for towing, impounding or storing vehicles within the city shall collect the fee on behalf of the city at the time of the release of the vehicle and shall remit monthly to the city manager or their designee said fee for each vehicle that is removed, impounded or stored. The monthly remittance shall be accompanied by an accounting of the accrued fees.

(Code 1981, § 10.08.030; Ord. No. 423, § 2, 2005)