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In addition to the impound situations that are authorized pursuant to RCW 46.55.113, a Bellingham police officer or parking enforcement officer established in BMC 2.27.010 may take custody of a vehicle and provide for its prompt removal to a place of safety under the following circumstances:

A. When the vehicle is impeding or is likely to impede the normal flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or

B. When the vehicle is illegally occupying a truck, commercial load zone, bus, loading, taxi, or other similar zone where, by order of the director of engineering or chief of police or fire, 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; or

C. When a vehicle is parked in a public right-of-way or on 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. [Ord. 2023-02-003 § 3; Ord. 2002-09-064 § 1; Ord. 1999-04-020].