§ 2:353. Immediate removal of vehicle obstructing traffic or endangering public health, safety or welfare.  


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  • The enforcing agency may immediately remove any vehicle which obstructs traffic or endangers the public health, safety or welfare from the streets or other public property of the city-parish, including but not limited to the following circumstances:

    (1)

    When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct, causeway or any underpass or along any street, road or alley where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic.

    (2)

    When a vehicle upon a highway, street, road or alley is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic, or the person in charge of a vehicle is, by reason of physical injury, incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.

    (3)

    When any vehicle is left unattended upon any street and is parked illegally, and such parking constitutes an obstruction to traffic or danger to local neighborhood residents.

(Ord. No. 10717, § 1, 9-25-96; Ord. No. 15308, § 1, 5-9-12)