If a plate number is reported, it is first checked to determine if it is an active registration. If it is, no action is taken.
If there is no plate on the vehicle or the plate is found either to be expired, attached or revoked with the insurance cancelled, a Parking Control Officer is dispatched to verify the information and evaluate the vehicle on site. If one of the criteria is met, the vehicle is green tagged with a seventy-two (72) hour window for the owner to move the vehicle off the street.
Each day, the towing contractor is supplied a list of all the vehicles that were tagged the previous day. When the seventy-two (72) hour ‘grace' period has expired, the towing contractor visits the location of each green-tagged vehicle. Those that are found to still be on the street are towed to a storage facility where they are held for thirty (30) days, pending possible reclamation by the owner.