If you no longer owe on the car and own it free and clear then it's your choice. You can pick it from the towing company or not. After a period of time, the towing company will place a lien on the vehicle and take ownership.
If you still owe money on the car then you have a contractual responsibility to protect the vehicle from liens and you will still be responsible to pay what you owe to the finance company.
You can have it towed at the owner's expense (meaning you can call a towing company and it will come and tow the vehicle. The owner, if he wants the vehicle, then needs to go to the towing company and reclaim the vehicle by paying the towing and storage fees).
The laws of towing and impounding vary from state to state. In Washington state, the towing company can not force anyone to redeem a vehicle from the impound lot. But after 21 days they can auction the vehicle to the highest bidder. The price that the vehicle sells for at the auction is deducted from the amount owed to the towing company. The balance DOES have to be paid by the registered owner, or it will be turned over to collections. Also according to RCW 46.55 the last registered owner of record is responsible for the fees of towing and storage of an abandoned vehicle. Failure to pay will result in a traffic infraction (failure to redeem) under 46.63. A lean will be placed against the registered owners license and any attempt to renew his or her license will denied until the deficiency and all penalties (collection fees) have been satisfied under RCW 46.63 and RCW 46.55.140. Once again these are Washington State laws, but most other states are similar to this. The other method used by some states is that the towing company is not required to auction the abandoned vehicle and after a certain amount of time, it is awarded to them as payment. These states usually to not permit the tow company to turn the balance over to collections and that would be the end of it. Once again you would need to check the towing and impounding laws of your particular state to find out for certain what their policy is.
You have to find the registered owner and buy the car from him. That is the only legal way to get the car. It may not be abandoned at all. The owner may have parked it there. He may check it every day. It legally belongs to him (or her).
generally they have ten days
If it was repossessed legally then he is guilty of theft
In most jurisdictions, there's a specific procedure you need to follow. The typical way this works is that after making efforts to contact the owner to pick up the vehicle, you report the vehicle to the state as "abandoned". The state then starts a chain of events in motion that should, at the end, result in you either getting title or getting paid for towing and storage. If you don't know what this procedure is, contact your state's DMV (or similar organization) to find out. Also have them slap you upside the head for operating a towing company and not knowing this already.
There are a couple of factors here. The towing company can't sell the vehicle while the trial is pending... it's evidence, after all. However, after the trial, if the owner of the vehicle does not pick it up in a timely fashion, the towing company is permitted to sell it after making a good-faith effort to notify the owner.
you can go around telling everybody to pass it on that a abandoned house
See "Trailer Towing" in chapter 8 "Driving Tips" of your "OWNER'S MANUAL".....
I wouldn't know about Ontario but in Nova Scotia, If the owner of the parking lot wants your car towed, they just contact local authorities and and then call the tow truck of their choice. If it's posted that a certain company will be towing from that lot and the allowed cars have stickers or placards in the windows, the towing company can and will patrol the yard and tow away anything that is parked there illegally. Completely within their rights to do so.
It is legally owned by its stockholders, although they do not have control over the day-to-day management of the company like a "normal" owner would for a non-corporation company.
If you know the dog was "almost" abandoned by its owner, then you must know who the owner is. Approach them and ask if they will let you have the dog, or sell it to you for a small fee.