(a) No person shall use any premises or public thoroughfare within the City for the purpose of keeping inoperable automobiles.
As used in this section “inoperative automobile” means and includes any motor vehicle which is not in operating condition or which has no value except for salvage or junk purposes, or which has not been licensed and issued a distinctive number and registration mark valid for the current year pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 4503 or which does not display such distinctive number and registration mark. As used in this section “keeping inoperative automobiles” means and includes the parking, standing or storage of any one or more inoperative automobiles any place other than in an enclosed garage, for a period in excess of twenty-four consecutive hours.
(b) A motor vehicle parked or stored in violation of this section may be removed to a motor vehicle pound or other place of storage by any police officer, at his discretion, and shall not be released except upon payment of towing and storage charges. Vehicles so removed may be disposed of according to provisions of the Ohio Revised Code.
(c) Any motor vehicle stored in violation of subsection (a) hereof will be deemed to be a separate violation for each twenty-four hour period that the vehicle is in non-compliance.
(Ord. 98-14. Passed 11-16-98.)
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.