Weathersfield establishes police impound lot

MINERAL RIDGE

Weathersfield Township has established an impound lot, setting regulations and fees.

The impound lot will be located at the township administration building at 1451 Prospect St. The fee will be $25 a day, and will be used for vehicles impounded by township police instead of the several other impound lots now used if a vehicle has to be towed.

Trustees and the police department have been discussing and investigating the opening of their own impound lot for a year, township Administrator David Rouan said.

Vehicles likely to be impounded are those in violation of parking and traffic laws and regulations, and others that come into police custody because they were stolen, abandoned, illegally parked or are an obstruction to traffic, or of which the police have acquired for custody for the protection of motor vehicles and their safe keeping.