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Ray, I think Jimmy’s right, there’s no way an OC could be expected to know the intentions of the person who left the car. Also, while the act and regs both use “abandoned” in the heading, the text in both simply refers to “left on common property”. And it refers to “obstructs the use of common property” so would apply if one of your visitor’s spots was unusable due to the abandoned car sitting in it. And, lets face it, you’re not going to stick an abandoned vehicle notice up as soon as a car parks, it’s probably going to be a couple of days, so the 5 days would blow out to at least 7. If someone challenged you after leaving a car around for that long against by-laws and with a notice up, what would be their argument?
Regarding where to put the vehicle… If you were to have it moved to the local Wilsons car park, then that would be legally parked but charges would accrue. This would be the same if you had it moved to the towing company’s holding yard. If, however, the OC moved it to a time limited or meter parking spot and allowed it to stay there in excess of the allowed time, then an offence has been committed by the OC who would be liable for a penalty. The vehicle’s owner has not committed that particular offence and would not be legally liable.