Ankeny, IA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Ankeny does not write its own abandoned-vehicle standard from scratch; § 80.01 of the Code of Ordinances instead adopts Section 321.89 of the Code of Iowa by reference and declares it part of Chapter 80, so any person who fails to abide by that state provision's requirements on abandoned vehicles is in violation of the city chapter and subject to city enforcement rather than only state enforcement. Section 80.02 gives the City authority to assess an administrative fee to recover the costs of tows and impounds, with the fee amount set by resolution of the City Council rather than fixed in the ordinance itself, so it can be adjusted without a code amendment.

Section 80.03, added by Ordinance No. 1675, gives a property owner an independent path to clear an abandoned vehicle from private property: the owner may employ a garage keeper to dispose of the vehicle, and the garage keeper may take custody of it without needing the City police authority to initiate the process first. That provision matters because a landowner is not stuck waiting on a police-led tow before a garage keeper can act. Chapter 77, Bicycle Registration, which once sat next to this chapter, was repealed outright by Ordinance No.

1675, the same ordinance that added § 80.03. Enforcement of the adopted state abandoned-vehicle provisions and the local fee schedule falls to the Ankeny Police Department, which identifies qualifying vehicles under the adopted Iowa Code standard before a tow or impound proceeds under the city's fee structure.