§ 14-03 Removal and Storage Fees for Licensed Vendors Equipment and Goods.
RCNY § 14-03
When the owner or person lawfully entitled to possession of a peddler's vehicle, cart, stand or goods appears at a Police Department facility to claim property, the following fees shall be collected: (a) 1) Vehicle, cart, stand removed by Department vehicle – $65.00 (2) Vehicle, cart, stand not removed by Department vehicle – $20.00 (3) Goods taken into custody with vendor's vehicle, cart, stand – $10.00 (4) Goods only seized – $20.00.
(b)If goods/food and vehicle, carts, stand, etc., are stored separately, a separate storage fee will be charged for each: a storage fee of $5.00 per day or part of day.
(c)Storage fee will not be imposed for the day the vehicle, cart, stand or goods/food are initially delivered to the station house.
(d)Return of seized property.
(1)A vehicle, cart, stand, or goods will not be released to an owner or his representative who alleges it was stolen and refuses to pay removal/storage charges.
(2)The seized property of a licensed general vendor will be returned upon demand and without the payment of any fee, when the vendor produces a valid general vendors license. An appropriate entry will be made in the "Remarks" section of the Property Clerk's Invoice.
(e)Retention of seized property. Pushcarts, stands, and/or merchandise removed from an unlicensed peddler will not be returned to the claimant upon payment of removal and storage fees, but will become the subject of forfeiture proceedings per Patrol Guide procedure 113-41, "Unlicensed Peddler Forfeiture Program."
