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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2026 - 78 By: Mayor Jones AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 303.08 ENTITLED "IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES; REDEMPTION" OF CHAPTER 303 ENTITLED "ENFORCEMENT, IMPOUNDING AND PENALTY" OF TITLE THREE ENTITLED "TRAFFIC CODE" OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, in order to provide greater clarity and to improve the process by which the City regulates and enforces the impoundment and recovery of impounded motor vehicles, particularly under circumstances where the underlying citation may be contested by a motor vehicle owner, it is in the City's interest to amend Section 303.08 of the Codified ordinances of the City of North Olmsted; and WHEREAS, the Directors of Law and Public Safety, together with the Chief of Police recommend that Section 303.08 entitled "Impounding of Vehicles; Redemption" of the Traffic Code of the City of North Olmsted be amended; and WHEREAS, this Council desires to amend the Code accordingly. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, AND STATE OF OHIO: SECTION 1: That Section 303.08 entitled "Impounding of Vehicles; Redemption" of the Traffic Code of the City of North Olmsted, which currently reads in its entirety as set forth herein shall be and the same is hereby amended and shall read in its entirety as follows, with such amendments denoted by bold face text for additions and stricken language for deletions: 303.08 IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES; REDEMPTION. (a) Police officers are authorized to provide for the removal 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) A. When any vehicle or "abandoned junk motor vehicle" as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63 is left 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.