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A. Except as provided in AMC 10.12.640, the Police Department may impound any vehicle, with or without citation and without giving prior notice to the owner as required in AMC 10.12.620 when:

1. The vehicle is unattended and is impeding or is likely to impede the normal flow of vehicular, pedestrian, or bicycle traffic; or

2. The vehicle is illegally occupying a truck zone, commercial load zone, construction zone, street closed by order of the City Council, restricted parking zone, bus, loading, hooded-meter, taxi, or other similar zone where parking is limited to designated classes of vehicles or is prohibited during certain hours, on designated days, or at all times, and where such vehicle is interfering with the proper and intended use of such zones and where such zone is clearly and conspicuously marked; or

3. The vehicle is parked within no parking zones specified in RCW 46.61.570; or

4. The vehicle is parked in violation of AMC 10.12.310(B) through (E); or

5. The vehicle is parked in violation of AMC 10.12.390(C) through (F); or

6. The vehicle is parked on Fidalgo Bay Road in violation of AMC 10.12.360; or

7. The vehicle without a special license plate, card, or decal indicating that the vehicle is being used to transport a disabled person as defined under Chapter 46.16 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, is parked in a stall or space clearly and conspicuously marked under RCW 46.61.581 when such space is on public property or provided on private property without charge; or

8. The vehicle parked in violation of this chapter that has unpaid parking tickets per AMC 10.12.780; or

9. The vehicle is parked in such a manner as to constitute a traffic hazard; or

10. The vehicle poses an immediate danger to the public safety; or

11. A police officer has probable cause to believe that the vehicle is stolen; or

12. A police officer has probable cause to believe that the vehicle constitutes evidence of a crime or contains evidence of a crime, if impoundment is reasonably necessary in such instance to obtain or preserve such evidence; or

13. The vehicle is parked in a publicly owned or controlled parking facility, properly posted under RCW 46.55.070; or

14. The vehicle is parked on private, nonresidential property, properly posted under RCW 46.55.070; or

15. The vehicle is left unattended on residential property without consent of the property owner or agent; or

16. The vehicle is a junk vehicle and is parked on a street, alley, or way open to the public, or on municipal or other public property; or

17. The vehicle is parked in a public right-of-way or on other publicly owned or controlled property in violation of any law, ordinance, or regulation and there are four or more parking infractions issued against the vehicle for each of which a person has failed to respond, failed to appear at a requested hearing, or failed to pay an adjudicated parking infraction for at least 45 days from the date of the filing of the notice of infraction; or

18. Any part of the vehicle is leaking material other than stormwater onto the street or any other part of the municipal separate storm sewer system in violation of AMC 18.30.050.

B. Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize seizure of a vehicle without a warrant where a warrant would otherwise be required. (Ord. 4054 § 1 (Att. A), 2023)