(a) The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this section:
(1) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(2) "Vehicle" means a machine propelled by power other than human power designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners, or slides and transport persons or property or pull machinery and includes, without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
(3) "Street or highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(4) "Property" means any real property within the City which is not a street or highway.
(b) No person shall leave any partially dismantled, or non-operating, or wrecked, or junked vehicle, or a vehicle which does not have secured to it the full number of current license plates required by the laws of the State, on any street or highway within the City.
(Ord. 82-14. Passed 4-27-82.)
(c) No person in charge or control of any property within the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, or non-operating, or wrecked, or junked, or discarded vehicle, or vehicle which does not have secured to it the full number of current license plates required by the laws of the State, to remain on such property longer than seven days; and no person whether as owner, tenant, occupant, or lessee of such property or as owner, renter or other rightful user or person with a right to possession, of any such vehicle shall allow any such vehicle to remain on any property within the City for a longer time than seven days; except that this section shall not apply to such a vehicle that is stored completely within an enclosed building or garage or is otherwise specifically permitted pursuant to the Zoning Ordinances of the City.
(Ord. 93-87. Passed 11-9-93.)
(d) The City Service-Safety Director, Chief of Police, or any member of the Bellefontaine Police Department designated by the Service-Safety Director or Chief of Police, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle left at any place within the City which reasonably appears to be in violation of this section or is lost, stolen, or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with the applicable sections of the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 82-14. Passed 4-27-82.)
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor, and shall also be assessed any costs incurred by the Municipality in disposing of such junk motor vehicle, less any money accruing to the Municipality from such disposal. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 82-14. Passed 4-27-82.)