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I I I 99 ORDINANCE 47 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MAOCOS, TEXAS, AMENDING SECTION 29-l52, EN- TITLED "IMPOUNDMENT OF STANDING OR PARKED VEHICLES," OF ARrICLE VII, ENTITLED "S'illPPING, STANDING AND PARKING" OF CHAPTER 29, ENTITLED "TRAFFIC" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF SAN. MAOCOS, TEXAS, BY ADDING TI'1iO LOCATIONS AT WHICH POLICE ARE AUTHORIZED 'ill REMJilE VEHICLES AND DErAILING IDI'ICE REQUIRE- MENTS; AMENDING SECTION 29-123, ENTITLED "NO PARK- ING ANYTIME~H OF ARrICLE V, ENl'ITLED "TRAFFIC- CONTROL DEVICES" OF CHAPTER 29, ENTITLED "TRAFFIC" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, BY DELETING ONE IlXATION AT WHICH PARKING IS PRO- HIBITED AT ALL TINES AND ADDING ThO LOCATIONS AT WHICH PARKING SHALL BE ProHIBITED AT ALL TIMES AND DECLARING AN EMERGEN:Y. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAWMARCOS, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That section 29-152, entitled ":I:mpoundment of standin;[ or parked vehicles", of Article VII, entitled "Stopping, Standing and Parking" of Chapter 29, entitled "Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances, City of San Marcos, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 29-l52. ImpoundrrEntof standing or parked vehicles. (a) Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle fran a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department or otherwise maintained by this city, under the follC1.Ving circumstances; (1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or causeway where such vehicle contitutes an obstruction to traffic. (2) When a vehicle upon.a highway is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the person in charge of the vehicle is, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to pro- vide for its custody or rerrova1. (3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so parked illegally as to constitute a hazard or 0b- struction to the normal movement of traffic. (4) When any vehicle is illegally parked so as to block the entrance to any private driveway it is impracticable to move such vehicle fran in front of the driveway to another point on the public street. (5) When any vehicle is parked within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, except within an officially marked park- ing stall. (6) When any vehicle is parked within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and, on the side of a street Opj;lOsite the entrance to any fire station, within seventy-five (75) feet of such entrance (when properly sign-posted). (b) Whenever an officer rerroves a vehicle frorrr,a street as authorized in this section, the police department shall notify within ten (10) days thereof, by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, the last !mown registered. owner of said vehicle and all lien holders of record pursuant to the Texas Certificate of Title Act, Article 6687-1, V.T.C.S. that the vehicle has been taken into custody. Said notification shall state the fact of such rerroval and the reasons therefore and the place to which said vehicle has been removed.