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Subd. 15 Disposal Authority. a. The City may contract with others or may utilize its own equipment and personnel for the inventory of impounded motor vehicles and scrap metal and may utilize its own equipment and personnel for the collection, storage and transportation of these vehicles and scrap metal. The City may utilize its own equipment and personnel only for the collection and storage of not more than five abandoned, junk, unsafe or unauthorized vehicles without advertising or receiving bids in any 120-day period. Subd. 16 Contracts; Reimbursement by MPCA. a. MPCA review and approval: If the City proposes to enter into a contract with a person licensed by the MPCA pursuant to this section or a contract pursuant to section 607.06 Subd. 15., the MPCA may review the proposed contract before it is entered into by the City, to determine whether it conforms to the MPCA’s plan for solid waste management and is in compliance with MPCA rules. A contract that does so conform may be approved by the MPCA and entered into by the City. Where a contract has been approved, the MPCA may reimburse the City for costs incurred under the contract that have not been reimbursed under section 607.06 Subd. 14. Except as otherwise provided in section 607.06 Subd. 15, the MPCA shall not approve any contract that has been entered into without prior notice to and request for bids from all persons duly licensed by the MPCA to be a party to a disposal contract pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 116.07, as it may be amended from time to time; does not provide for a full performance bond; or does not provide for total collection or transportation of abandoned, junk, and unsafe motor vehicles, except that the MPCA may approve a contract covering soley collection or transportation of abandoned , junk, and unsafe motor vehicles where the MPCA determines total collection and transportation to be impractical and where all other requirements herein have been met and the unit of government, after proper notice and request for bids, has not received any bid for total collection and transportation of abandoned, junk, and unsafe motor vehicles. b. If the City utilizes its own equipment and personnel pursuant to its authority under section 607.06 Subd. 15, and the use of the equipment and personnel conforms to the MPCA’s plan for solid waste management and is in compliance with MPCA rules, the City may be reimbursed by the MPCA for reasonable costs incurred which are not reimbursed under section 607.06 Subd. 14. c. The MPCA may demand that the City contract for the disposal of impounded vehicles and other scrap metal pursuant to the MPCA’s plan for solid waste disposal. If the City fails to contract within 180 days of the demand, the MPCA, through the Department of Administration and on behalf of the City, may contract with any person duly licensed by the MPCA for the disposal. a. Impounding: Any police officer or other duly authorized person may order any vehicle constituting a public nuisance to be immediately removed and/or impounded. The impounded vehicle shall be surrendered to the duly identified owner by the towing contractor only upon payment of the required impound, towing and storage fees. b. Sale: Notice and sale of any vehicle impounded under this Chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, chapter 168B, governing the sale of abandoned motor vehicles. (Ord. 556, 3-20-95) 607.07: NOISE CONTROL REGULATIONS: Subd. 1. Loud Or Unnecessary Noises Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any person to make or cause to be made any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise which either annoys, disturbs or affects the comfort, repose, health or peace of others. Subd. 2. Loud Or Disturbing Noises Enumerated; Restrictions: The following acts set forth in the following paragraphs are declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises in violation of this Section, but said enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive: