§ 22-109 Removal of trucks, merchandise and vessels.
AC § 22-109
Where any wharf property or marginal street shall be encumbered or obstructed in its free use or navigation by merchandise or material not affixed to such wharf property or marginal street, or by an automobile, wagon, truck or cart, or by any floating, stranded or sunken vessel or craft, and the owner, consignee or person in charge thereof shall fail to remove the same when directed by an order issued by the commissioner, pursuant to section seven hundred four of the charter, the commissioner may employ such labor and equipment as may be necessary to carry out such order. The commissioner may store such merchandise, material, automobile, wagon, truck, cart, vessel or craft in a warehouse or other suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner, consignee or person in charge of the merchandise, material, automobile, wagon, truck, cart, vessel or craft so removed or stored may redeem the same upon payment to the commissioner of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal, together with any charges for storage. The commissioner shall be deemed a creditor of such owner, consignee or person in charge and each of them for the amount of the expenses so incurred and the commissioner may maintain an action against them, or any of them, to recover the same.
