This car at Heck and Benson has been parked there for 4 months. It is missing the rear license plate. Imagine if that corner house were yours. The police have not acted. Blogfinger photo 9/28/17
There will be a public hearing on this proposed ordinance at the Oct 5 meeting.
The definition of impounded is “seize and take legal custody of something, especially a vehicle, goods, or documents because of an infringement of a law or regulation.”
If a car does not have an up-to-date registration, it can currently receive a summons and can be towed.
The car above is missing the rear license plate, but the inspection sticker is up-to-date. We don’t know if it has a current registration. There are no tickets under the wipers.
There is a warehoused vehicle on Delaware Avenue which the out-of-town owner moves slightly every once in a while. We also know that some people store a car on Ocean Avenue to use as a beach locker.
HERE IS ORDINANCE 17-40. There is a second page which has to do with “presumption of abandonment” but this is the main part. Click on it for easier reading:
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Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
GRIMES X BLEACHERS “Entropy” (Soundtrack of HBO’s Girls.)
“Calculate the entropy
Running out of energy
A lack of love or empathy
Leave me lonely”
About a year or so ago somebody parked an old pickup right across the street from our house) with a for sale sign. It had no tags but an up-to-date registration.
I called NTPD and told them it was just put there today with no tags. Two officers came about 10 minutes later, and about 10 minutes after that, a flatbed showed up, loaded up the car, and took it away.
I don’t know if the fact that it has one plate makes the case above different than the one I called about.
If they instituted an alternate side of the street parking policy during the ‘off season’ this really wouldn’t be an issue.
Just this past week, the street cleaner vehicle roamed around town cleaning the middle of the streets. What a waste! It’s the debris and deposited car fluids along the curbs and storm drains that contributes to the fouling of the lakes.
Abandoned cars and warehoused vehicles would be ticked and towed.