So this bike was not ticketed or removed because it was on private property ? Otherwise, working order or not, you have the authority to ticket or remove it. Is this correct?

ARTICLE III. - IMPOUNDING
10:174. - Impounding of vehicles.
Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to remove bicycles from a public place to the city bicycle pound or other place of safety, under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.

(1)When any bicycle is reasonably believed to be stolen.

(2)When any bicycle has been left unattended upon any public street, alley, or sidewalk continuously for a period of 48 hours, or when any bicycle is left in such a manner as to obstruct unreasonably the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic on any public street, alley, or sidewalk.

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