Section 17-321. Enforcement

a. Public health sanitarians or other authorized
  officers  or  employees of the department and police officers shall have
  the power to enforce all laws, rules and regulations  relating  to  food
  vendors. This provision shall in no way restrict any other power granted
  by law to any officer or employee of the city.
    b.  If a food vendor does not move his or her vehicle or pushcart when
  directed to do so by a police officer or  other  authorized  officer  or
  employee  of the city in compliance with the provisions of subdivision k
  of section 17-315 of this  subchapter,  such  officer  or  employee  may
  provide  for  the  removal  of  such  vehicle or pushcart to any garage,
  automobile pound or other place of safety, and the owner or other person
  lawfully entitled to the possession of such vehicle or pushcart  may  be
  charged  with  reasonable  costs  for  such removal and storage, payable
  prior to the release of such vehicle or pushcart.
    c. An officer or employee designated in subdivision a of this  section
  may  seize  any  vehicle or pushcart which (i) does not have a permit or
  (ii) is being used to vend on property owned by the city and  under  the
  jurisdiction  of  a  city  agency  including,  but  not  limited to, the
  department of parks and recreation or the department of  small  business
  services,  without the written authorization of the commissioner of such
  department, or (iii) is being used by an unlicensed vendor, or  (iv)  is
  being  used to vend in the area including and bounded on the east by the
  easterly side of Broadway, on the south by the southerly side of Liberty
  Street, on the west by the westerly side of West Street and on the north
  by the northerly side of Vesey  Street,  or  (v)  is  selling  food  not
  authorized  by  the  permit,  and may seize any food sold or offered for
  sale from such vehicle or pushcart. Such vehicle, pushcart or food shall
  be  subject  to  forfeiture  as  provided  in  section  17-322  of  this
  subchapter.  If a forfeiture proceeding is not commenced, the vendor may
  be charged with the reasonable costs for  removal  and  storage  payable
  prior to the release of such food, vehicle or pushcart unless the charge
  of  vending  without  a  permit  or vending without a license or vending
  without the authorization of such commissioner is dismissed.
    d. If a food vendor operates any food vending business on  any  street
  at any time where and when the operation of any food vending business is
  prohibited  pursuant  to  the provisions of section 20-465.1 of the code
  and any rules promulgated pursuant thereto, or if a food vendor operates
  a food vending business in the area including and bounded on the east by
  the easterly side of Broadway, on the south by  the  southerly  side  of
  Liberty  Street,  on the west by the westerly side of West Street and on
  the north by the northerly side of Vesey Street, any authorized  officer
  or employee of the city or member of the New York city police department
  is  authorized  to  provide  for the removal of such food vendor's food,
  vehicle or pushcart to any garage, automobile pound or  other  place  of
  safety,  and  the  owner  or  other  person  lawfully  entitled  to  the
  possession of such vehicle or pushcart  or  food  may  be  charged  with
  reasonable costs for removal and storage.