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MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Montgomery County Code 1972 is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:
Section 31—34. Impounding vehicles after enumerated
violations, generally.
(1) Members of the department of police or any
authorized designee of the county executive are hereby
authorized to remove a parked or unattended vehicle or
trailer from a street, highway, public way, county
property or privately owned public parking lot to the
nearest police substation, garage or other place of
safety designated by the department of police or county
executive if said vehicle or trailer has been involved in
or the subject of three or more outstanding, past due
violations of this Chapter, or is so parked illegally as
to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the
normal movement of traffic.
(2) Whenever a vehicle or trailer is removed from
a street, highway, public way, county property or
privately owned public parking lot as authorized in this
Chapter and the officer or agent knows or is able to
ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle or
trailer or the records of the State Motor Vehicle
Administration the name and address of the owner thereof,
such officer or agent shall immediately give or cause to
be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of
such removal and the reasons therefor, the place to which
such vehicle or trailer has been removed and the method
by which release can be secured. A copy of said notice
shall be sent to the department of finance and to the
officer or proprietor in charge of the place where said
vehicle is being held.
(3) All outstanding penalties and/or fines
assessed pursuant to violations of this Chapter shall be
charged to the owner of the vehicle or trailer in
addition to towing, storage, and impounding charges, and
shall be paid to the county before the owner may reclaim
the vehicle or trailer.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on the 76th
day following the date on which it becomes law.
Approved August 28, 1973
Chapter 5
Bill No. 23-73
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