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(0, n, I ('\ MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC ~ 12-114 (c) For the purposes of this section, it shall be presumed that such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, or part thereof, is abandoned if it lacks either a current state license plate, a current county, city or town plate or sticker or a valid state inspection certificate or sticker and has been in a specific location for ten (10) days without being moved. (<1) Each removal under.this section shall be reported immediately to the chief of police, and notice thereof given t.o the owner of the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer as promptly as possible. The owner of such vehicle or trailer or semitrailer, before obtaining possession thereof, shall pay to the city aU reasonable cost incidental to the removal, storage and locating the owner of the vehicle, trailer or semitrailer. Should such owne.r f~il or refuse to pay the cost or should the identity or whereabouts of such owner be unknown and unascertainable after a diligent search has been made, and after notice to him at his last known address and to the holder of any lien of record in the office of the state division of motor vehicles against the vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, the chief of police may, after holding, the vehicle, trailer or semitrailer forty (40) days and after due notice of sale, dispose ofthe same at public sale and the proceeds from the sale shall be forwarded by the chief of police to the city treasurer; provided, however, that if the value of such vehicle, trailer or semitrailer is determined by three (3) disinterested dealers or garagemen to be less than one hundre~ fifty dollars ($150.00), it may be disposed of by private sale or junked. (e) Any personal property found in any unattended or abandoned motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer may be sold incident to the sale of such vehicle pursuant to this section. (f) The city treasurer shall pay, from the proceeds of any sale under this section, the cost of removal, storage, investigation as to ownership and liens and notice of sale, and the balance of such funds shall be held by him for the owner and paid to the owner upon satisfactory proof of ownership. (g) If no claim has been made by the owner for the proceeds of a sale under this section, the remaining funds shall be deposited to the general fund of the city. Any such owner shall be entitled to apply to the city within three (3) years from the date of such sale and, if timely application is made therefor, the city shall pay the same to the owner without interest or other charges. No claim shall be made nor shall any suit, action or proceeding be instituted for the recovery of such funds after three (3) years from the date of such sale. (Ord. of 2-24-81, ~ 10-116) State law reference-Authority for above section, Code of Virginia, ~~ 46.2-1213, 46.2-1217, 46.2-1214. Sec. 12-114. Removal of vehicles obstructing traffic or parking spaces. Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle stopped upon any public street or highway or on any municipal parking lot in such a manner as to constitute an obstruction to traffic or block access to parking spaces, such officer may require the owner, driver or person in charge of the vehicle to remove the same to a position off of the paved or traveled portion of such street, highway or lot, or may have such vehicle removed, by towing or otherwise, to a licensed garage for storage until called for by the owner or his agent. In the event of such removal and Supp. No. 20 739