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SCS/SB 88 - Under current law, property is deemed abandoned when it has been on the right-of-way of any highway or freeway in an urbanized area for 10 hours, but property on the right-of-way on any highway or freeway outside of an urbanized area is not abandoned until it has been on the right-of-way for 48 hours. This act amends the current law so that property is deemed abandoned after it has been left unattended for 10 hours on the right-of-way of the state highway system. The urbanized and non-urbanized distinctions are repealed so that abandoned property is subject to subject to tow after the property has been left unattended for 10 hours. This act authorizes law enforcement officers to tow abandoned vehicles abandoned by persons who elude arrest for offenses the officer would have taken the offender into custody. The act also authorizes law enforcement officers to immediately remove abandoned property from the right of way of any interstate highway, freeway, or state highway if the abandoned property is creating a traffic hazard. Currently, this provision of law only authorizes the Department of Transportation to immediately remove the hazard from a state highway. STEPHEN WITTE
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