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Effective Date: February 8, 2015
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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Section 10-6-2: Authority to Remove Vehicles (Tow)
NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THAT:
SECTION 1: Section 10-6-2 of the Evanston City Code of 2012, as
amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
10-6-2: Authority to Remove Vehicles (Tow)
(A) The City Manager or his/her designee is hereby authorized to immediately and
without prior notice tow away, or cause to be towed away, any vehicle on any
public street, public place or private property in the following circumstances:
1. When the motor vehicle is an accident involved motor vehicle,
2. When the motor vehicle is a hazardous vehicle;
3. When the motor vehicle is a derelict motor vehicle;
4. When the motor vehicle is a snow emergency obstruction,
5. When the motor vehicle is a street cleaning obstruction;
6. When the motor vehicle is a tree cutting obstruction;
7. When the motor vehicle is a street or sewer maintenance obstruction
vehicle,
8. When the motor vehicle is a tow away zone obstruction vehicle;
9. When the motor vehicle is not operable due to the arrest of the owner or
operator;
10. When the motor vehicle is an abandoned, lost or reported stolen vehicle;
11. When the motor vehicle is a reserved residential wheelchair bound
obstruction vehicle;
12. When the vehicle is a nonmotorized obstruction vehicle,
13. When the motor vehicle is a wheel lock immobilized vehicle pursuant to
police order;
14. When the vehicle is on private property and is parked there without
consent of the property owner, proprietor, or agent of the property,
provided: a) that signs posted on the property give notice that parking is
prohibited, and b) that the person requesting the tow signs a statement
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that he/she is the owner, proprietor, or agent of the property and that
he/she has authority to request the tow.
15. When the motor vehicle violates the provisions of Subsection 9-5-23(A)4
of this Code;
16. When the vehicle was reportedly used in the commission of a crime;
17. When a crime was reported, or is suspected to have occurred, within any
part of the vehicle;
18. When the motor vehicle is physically obstructing access to a fire hydrant.
(B) The City Manager or his/her designee is hereby authorized to immediately tow,
or cause to be towed away, any vehicle on any public street or public place when
a temporary tow -away zone has been posted by the authority of the City with 48
hour notice. Such tow -away zones shall clearly indicate the temporary tow -away
zone date and time.
(C) The Chief of Police shall promulgate rules and regulations in the form of a special
order for the implementation of this Chapter.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstance is ruled unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid provision or invalid
application of this ordinance is severable.
SECTION 4: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to be
prima facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as
provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
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Introduced: ���1�(�;�' �� 2015 Approved:
Adopted:-Aw"i a �, 2015 39
Attest:
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Ro ney Ga, Jerk
ElizUeth B. Tisdahl, Mayor
, 2015
Approved as to form:
Gram Farrar, orporation Counsel
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