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As an alternate procedure, the Chief of Police may, after giving the notice required by Section 8.20.030 and after waiting seventy two hours, cause the vehicle or vehicles to be removed by a city truck or by a commercial tow truck to a commercial garage or an automobile wrecking yard or any other suitable place for storage of the vehicle, as may be designated by the Chief of Police – and within forty eight hours after removal and storage of such vehicle by the Chief of Police, he shall give the notice in the manner prescribed in Section 8.20.030 to the registered owner of such vehicle and also to the owner, lessee or person in possession of land from which the vehicle was or vehicles were removed, that such vehicle or vehicles have been impounded and stored for violation of this chapter, and notice shall include the location of place where the vehicle or vehicles are stored, the costs incurred by the city for the removal or towing and the storage charges accruing, which shall not exceed one dollar per day, and that if such charges are not paid in full to the City Recorder within ten days immediately following the giving of such notice, such vehicle or vehicles shall be deemed to have been abandoned and will thereafter be discarded as junk or may, at the discretion of the Chief of Police, be sold as an abandoned vehicle in the manner prescribed in this section after giving not less than thirty days’ notice by a registered letter addressed to the registered owner of the vehicle at his latest address shown on the records in the office in the Motor Vehicles Division of the state, with the owner given the right to reclaim such vehicle within such thirty days by paying all the costs and expenses incurred in the removal, preservation and custody of the vehicle for a period not in excess of ninety days – and if not so reclaimed, then to be sold, with the Chief of Police to execute a certificate of sale in duplicate, with a copy of the certificate of sale to be delivered to the purchaser and the original to be retained by the Chief of Police – and the money so received from the sale thereof to be applied first to the payment of the costs and expenses incurred in the removal, preservation and custody of the vehicle and the remainder to be retained by the city for a period of one year – and if not claimed by then, to be turned over to the state as in the case of property to escheat to the state.