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~ 12-114 MARTINSVILLE CODE /~ storage, the owner of the vehicle involved shall be chargeable with and the vehicle may be held for a reasonable charge for its removal and storage. (Ord. of 2-24-81, ~ 10-117) Sec. 12-115. Removal of vehicles against which there are outstanding parking violations. Whenever any motor vehicle is found parked upon the public streets or highways of the city or in any municipal parking lot, against which 8uchvehicle there are three (3) or more outstanding unpaid or otherwise unsettled parking violation citations, such vehicle may, by towing or otherwise, be removed and taken to any garage or impoundment area to be stored. The removal of the vehicle shall be by or under the direction of an officer of the police department. It shall be the duty of the police officer removing such motor vehicle, or under whose direction such vehicle is removed, to inform, as soon as practicable, the owner of the removed vehicle of the nature and circumstances of the prior unsettled parking violation citations, for which or on account of which such vehicle was removed. The owner of such removed vehicle, or other duly authorized person, shall be permitted to repossess or to secure the release of the vehicle by payment of the outstanding parking violation citations for which the vehicle was removed and by payment of allreasoilable cost incidental to the removal and storage ofthe vehicle and the efforts to locate the owner of the vehicle. Should such owner fail or refuse to pay such fines and costs, or should the identity or whereabouts of such owner be unknown and unasce~ainable, then the vehicl~ shall be sold in accordance with the proce- dures set forth, in section 12-113. (Ord. of2-24-81, ~ 10-117.1) _ . . _ State law reference-Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, ~ 46.2-1216. /---""\ Sec. 12-116. Contracts with private persons for removal and storage of vehicles under article. , \ ," ' The city shall have the power to enter into contr~cts with the owner or operator of garages or other places for the removal and storage of vehicles pursuant to the provisions of this article. The contracts shall provide for the payment by the city of reasonable charges for the removal and storage of such vehicles. shall require the owners or operators of the garages or other places to deliver such vehicles back to the owners thereof upon the release of the vehicles by the police, upon payment of all removal and storage charges and upon furnishing satisfactory evidence of identity and ownership or agency . The contracts shall further provide that the owners or operators of such garages or places of storage will indemnify the owners of such vehicles for injury or damage thereto resulting from negligence in the removal or storage thereof, and such owners or operators shall be required to provide themselves with adequate liability insurance to cover such indetnnity. (Ord. of 2-24-81. ~ 10-117.2) Secs. 12-117-12-126. Reserved. ~. Supp. No. 20 740