34-10 Amend Title One, Administration of the Traffic Code

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horsepower; an agricultural tractor; farm machinery; except in the performance of public works or official duties. (ORC 4511.051) 303.07 APPLICATION TO DRIVERS OF GOVERNMENT VEHICLES. The provisions of this Traffic Code applicable to the drivers of vehicles shall apply to the drivers of all vehicles owned or operated by the United States, any state or any political subdivision thereof, including this Municipality, except as may be otherwise provided by law and subject to such specific exceptions as are set forth with reference to authorized emergency and public safety vehicles. 303.08 IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES; REDEMPTION. (a) Police officers are authorized to provide for the removal and impounding of a vehicle under the following circumstances: (1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any street, bridge or causeway and is so illegally parked so as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic, or so as to unreasonably interfere with street cleaning or snow removal operations; (2) When any motor vehicle, other than an abandoned junk motor vehicle, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63 is left on private residential property, as defined in Section 303.09(d), or on private agricultural property, for at least four consecutive hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel, or upon or within the right of way of any road or highway, for forty- eight consecutive hours or longer, without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving such vehicle in such place; (3) When any abandoned junk motor vehicle is left on private property for more than seventy-two. consecutive hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right of way of any road or highway, for forty-eight consecutive hours or longer, without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving such vehicle in such place; (4) When any vehicle has been stolen or operated without the consent of the owner; (5) When any vehicle displays illegal license .plates or fails to display the current lawfully required license plates; (6) When any vehicle has been used in or connected with the commission of a felony; (7) When any vehicle has been damaged or wrecked so as to be inoperable or violates equipment provisions of this Traffic Code whereby its continued operation would constitute a condition hazardous to life, limb or property; 22