CHAPTER 5
ABANDONED, WRECKED VEHICLES

SECTION:

6-5-1: Definitions

6-5-2: Public Nuisance Declared

6-5-3: Notice of Violation

6-5-4: Right of Entry for Inspection

6-5-5: Public Hearing Prior to Removal

6-5-6: Exceptions

6-5-1: DEFINITIONS:

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

   ANTIQUE AUTO: A passenger car or truck that was manufactured in 1925 or before, or which is thirty five (35) or more years old.

   COLLECTOR: The owner of one or more antique or special interest vehicles who collects, purchases, acquires, trades or disposes of special interest or antique vehicles or parts of them for his own use in order to restore, preserve and maintain an antique or special interest vehicle for historic interest.

   DEMOLISHER: Any person whose business is to convert a motor vehicle into processed scrap or scrap metal or otherwise to wreck or dismantle motor vehicles.

   JUNKED VEHICLE: A motor vehicle as defined in Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, article 6701d-11:

   A.   That is inoperative; and

   B.   That does not have lawfully affixed to it either an unexpired license plate or a valid motor vehicle safety inspection certificate; that is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled or discarded; or that remains inoperable for a continuous period of more than forty five (45) days.

   SPECIAL INTEREST VEHICLE: A motor vehicle of any age which has not been altered or modified from original manufacturer's specifications and, because of its historic interest, is being preserved by hobbyist. (Ord., 6-29-93)

6-5-2: PUBLIC NUISANCE DECLARED:

   A.   A junked vehicle that is located where it is visible from a public place or a public right of way is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism, creates fire hazards, constitutes an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and is detrimental to the economic welfare of the City by producing urban blight, adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the City and is a public nuisance 1 .

   B.   A person commits an offense if that person creates or maintains a public nuisance as determined under this Section.

   C.   A person who commits an offense under this Section is, upon conviction, subject to penalty as provided in Section 1-4-1 of this Code. On conviction, the Court shall order removal and abatement of the nuisance. (Ord., 6-29-93; 1994 Code)

 

Notes

1	1. See Title 4, Chapter 4 of this Code for nuisance provisions.