(a) Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle violating the provisions of this chapter to the nearest private garage or lot or to a garage or lot or other place designated or maintained by the Police Department or otherwise maintained by this City, and to hold the vehicle until all the procedural requirements for claiming the vehicle established by TMC 10.25.040 are satisfied.

(b) The Police Department, upon determining that a vehicle will be impounded, except when impounded for violations of TMC 10.60.080, shall affix a notice in a conspicuous and semipermanent manner to the vehicle, informing the owner or operator that the vehicle will be impounded upon the expiration of 48 hours from the time specified in the notice. No vehicle to which this notice provision applies shall be impounded within a 48-hour period from the affixing of the notice. This requirement shall apply to vehicles registered in the State, vehicles registered in another state, and vehicles which bear no registration plate. (Code 1981 § 43-403. Code 1995 § 142-267.)