Removal of motor vehicles abandoned or left unattended on a public place
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Summary
A uniformed police officer with jurisdiction may authorise removal or immobilisation of a motor vehicle left unattended on a public place for ten hours or more, or parked where parking is legally prohibited. If a vehicle is wrecked, burnt, partially dismantled, or is creating a traffic hazard, the officer may order immediate towing. The vehicle owner must pay all towing costs and may face other penalties.
Example
Ravi parks his car in a no-parking zone outside a shop and it stays there for more than ten hours. A uniformed police officer with jurisdiction authorises a towing service to remove the car, and Ravi must pay the towing costs.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Where any motor vehicle is abandoned or left unattended on a public place for ten hours or more or is parked in a place where parking is legally prohibited, its removal by a towing service or its immobilisation by any means including wheel clamping may be authorised by a police officer in uniform having jurisdiction.
(2) Where an abandoned, unattended, wrecked, burnt or partially dismantled vehicle is creating a traffic hazard, because of its position in relation to the public place, or its physical appearance is causing the impediment to the traffic, its immediate removal from the public place by a towing service may be authorised by a police officer having jurisdiction.
(3) Where a vehicle is authorised to be removed under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) by a police officer, the owner of the vehicle shall be responsible for all towing costs, besides any other penalty.
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