303.09 ABANDONED JUNK VEHICLES ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
(a) No person shall place, stand or park a junk vehicle upon any street, alley or public grounds or upon any private property for a period in excess of seventy-two hours.
(b) Any junk vehicle which is disposed of in violation of subsection (a) hereof shall be deemed abandoned at the end of the seventy-two hour period and shall be subject to being impounded, removed and conveyed by towing or other means, by order of any member of the Division of Police, to any area, public or private, where it may be lawfully placed. After being impounded for a minimum of ten days, such junk vehicle may be sold for salvage value or otherwise permanently disposed of. Such remedy shall be in addition to the penalties provided in Section 303.99.
(c) Notice that such junk vehicle is so dismantled, destroyed or changed that it physically is no longer a motor vehicle or is not the motor vehicle described in the purchaser's certificate of title, shall be given to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas who issued it.
(d) Notice of the removal, location and condition of the junk vehicle, as well as the date and place of the proposed sale, shall be given by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner and lien holders set forth in its certificate of title. If the owner or lien holders make no claim to such junk vehicle within ten days of the mailing of such notice, they shall forfeit all rights to such junk vehicle and shall thereby be barred from asserting any interest thereto at the time and such junk vehicle shall become the property of the City.
(e) After junk vehicles have been sold or otherwise disposed of, the proceeds of such sale, if any, shall be applied to the towing charges and the balance, if any, shall be deposited into the General Fund of the City.
(Ord. 67-36. Passed 10-3-67.)
(f) 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.