Code of Virginia - Title 46.2 Motor Vehicles - Section 46.2-1212 Authority to provide for temporary removal and disposition of vehicles involved in accident...

§ 46.2-1212. Authority to provide for temporary removal and disposition of vehicles involved in accident...

The governing body of any county, city, or town may provide by ordinance that whenever a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer involved in an accident is so located as to impede the orderly flow of traffic, the police may (i) at no cost to the owner or operator remove the motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to some point in the vicinity where it will not impede the flow of traffic or (ii) have the vehicle removed to a storage area for safekeeping and shall report the removal to the Department and to the owner of the vehicle as promptly as possible. If the vehicle is removed to a storage area under clause (ii), the owner shall pay to the parties entitled thereto all costs incidental to its removal and storage.

(1964, c. 349, § 46.1-3.1; 1989, c. 727; 1992, c. 269.)

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