§ 9.28.031. Preimpoundment hearing.

When an officer discovers a vehicle described in Section 9.28.030(2), notice shall be given as follows prior to impoundment:

(a)

When the vehicle displays proper current registration or license plates so that the owner may be ascertained, or when the owner of the vehicle is actually determined by the police department from other information available, then the city shall send notice, substantially as appears below, to such owner by certified mail, five-day return receipt requested:

NOTICE OF IMPOUNDMENT

 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to the owner ____________ ____________ , of a vehicle described as a ____________ (description—make, model, year, license number and motor number) located at ____________ (address) that it will be impounded by authority of City of Union Gap Municipal Code, Section 9.28.030, if such vehicle is not removed from its present location within fourteen days of ____________ (date).

 YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that you have the right to protest the impoundment if you request a hearing by personally delivering, or by mailing, to the Union Gap Municipal Court, 102 W. Ahtanum Road, Union Gap, Washington 98903, a copy of the following "Request for a Pre-Impoundment Hearing" within fourteen days from the date specified above. The request for hearing must actually be filed before the Clerk's office closes on the date specified.

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	Title:
	Date:

 

VEHICLE IMPOUNDS

By: ____________

Agent

BEFORE THE UNION GAP MUNICIPAL COURT

CITY OF UNION GAP, a	)
Municipal Corporation	)	No. _____

 

	)
vs.	)	REQUEST FOR PRE-
	)	IMPOUNDMENT
____________	)	HEARING
(Owner's Name)	)

 

I, as owner of the vehicle listed above, request a hearing to contest the validity of the proposed impoundment of the vehicle described in the foregoing Notice of Impoundment; and I understand that this request must be returned to the Union Gap Municipal Court before the date listed in the "Notice of Impoundment."

DATED this ____________ day of ____________ / ____________ / ____________ , 20 ____________ .

	____________	(Signature of Owner)
	____________
	(Address and Telephone)

 

(b)

If the officer who is sending the notice has actual knowledge that the owner of the vehicle is residing at an address different from that ascertained from the vehicle registration certificate, license plate information, or other public record and if such different address is known to the agent who gives the notice, then a copy of the notice contained in subsection (a) of this section shall be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested addressed to that known address, or personally served upon such owner.

(c)

If the officer does not ascertain the name and address of the vehicle owner using the methods in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the officer shall attach a copy of the notice, addressed to "unknown owner," to the vehicle in a conspicuous place and this shall be deemed sufficient notice.

(Ord. 1941 § 2, 1996: Ord. 1938 § 2, 1996: Ord. 1472 § 3, 1991: Ord. 1341 § 1(C), 1990)