California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 1 - Authority to Remove Vehicles

• Section 22650.
  It is unlawful for any peace officer or any unauthorized person to remove any unattended vehicle from a highway to a garage or to any...
• Section 22651.
  A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or a regularly...
• Section 22651.05.
  (a) A trained volunteer of a state or local law enforcement agency, who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of a...
• Section 22651.07.
  (a) A person, including a law enforcement agency, city, county, city and county, the state, a tow yard, storage facility, or an impounding yard, that charges...
• Section 22651.1.
  Persons operating or in charge of any storage facility where vehicles are stored pursuant to Section 22651 shall accept a valid bank credit card or...
• Section 22651.2.
  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly...
• Section 22651.3.
  (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code,...
• Section 22651.4.
  (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may impound a...
• Section 22651.5.
  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly...
• Section 22651.6.
  A peace officer or employee specified in Section 22651 may remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may...
• Section 22651.7.
  (a) In addition to, or as an alternative to, removal, a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of...
• Section 22651.8.
  For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (i) of Section 22651 and Section 22651.7, “satisfactory evidence” includes, but is not limited to, a copy of...
• Section 22651.9.
  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly...
• Section 22652.
  (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly...
• Section 22652.5.
  The owner or person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility, or any local authority owning or operating an offstreet parking facility, who causes...
• Section 22652.6.
  Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly...
• Section 22653.
  (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code,...
• Section 22654.
  (a) Whenever any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal...
• Section 22655.
  (a) When any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal...
• Section 22655.3.
  Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, pursuing a fleeing...
• Section 22655.5.
  A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may remove a...
• Section 22656.
  Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code,...
• Section 22658.
  (a) The owner or person in lawful possession of private property, including an association of a common interest development as defined in Sections 4080 and 4100...
• Section 22658.1.
  (a) Any towing company that, in removing a vehicle, cuts, removes, otherwise damages, or leaves open a fence without the prior approval of the property owner...
• Section 22659.
  Any peace officer of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or any person duly authorized by the state agency in possession of property owned...
• Section 22659.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city or a county may adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject...
• Section 22659.6.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, and Sacramento may each adopt an ordinance to conduct a 24-month pilot program in which...
• Section 22660.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as...
• Section 22661.
  Any ordinance establishing procedures for the removal of abandoned vehicles shall contain all of the following provisions:(a) The requirement that notice be given to the Department...
• Section 22662.
  Vehicles or parts thereof may be disposed of by removal to a scrapyard, automobile dismantler’s yard, or any suitable site operated by a local authority...
• Section 22663.
  Any ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 22660 shall provide for administration of the ordinance by regularly salaried full-time employees of the city, county, or city...
• Section 22664.
  Any licensed dismantler or commercial enterprise acquiring vehicles removed pursuant to such ordinance shall be excused from the reporting requirements of Section 11520; and any...
• Section 22665.
  Notwithstanding Section 22710 or any other provision of law, the department may, at the request of a local authority, other than a service authority, administer...
• Section 22666.
  Whenever the department is administering a program pursuant to Section 22665, it shall by regulation establish procedures for the abatement and removal of vehicles that...
• Section 22667.
  In establishing procedures for the abatement and removal of abandoned vehicles, the department shall give priority to the removal of abandoned vehicles from corridors of...
• Section 22668.
  No local authority whose abandoned vehicle abatement and removal program is administered pursuant to Section 22665 shall be eligible for any disbursement from the Abandoned...
• Section 22669.
  (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code,...
• Section 22670.
  (a) For lien sale purposes, the public agency causing the removal of the vehicle shall determine if the estimated value of the vehicle that has been...
• Section 22671.
  A local authority may either issue a franchise or execute a contract for the removal of abandoned vehicles in accordance with the provisions of this...
• Section 22710.
  (a) A service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles may be established, and a one dollar ($1) vehicle registration fee imposed, in a county if...
• Section 22711.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the California Highway Patrol, any city, county, or city and county which has an abandoned vehicle abatement program, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018