Whenever a member of the Police or the Municipal Police has sufficient grounds to believe that a given vehicle has been involved in an accident from which the driver has abandoned the scene of the accident, and said vehicle shows any visible signs of having been involved in an accident, the office shall be empowered to remove said vehicle from the public road and transfer the same to an adequate facility for its inspection. The owner shall not be deprived of his/her vehicle for more than forty-eight (48) hours.\nHistory —Jan. 7, 2000, No. 22, § 4.11, eff. 1 year after Jan. 7, 2000.
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