660.07 STORAGE OF JUNK VEHICLES.

   (a)   As used in this section, "junk motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is:

      (1)   Extensively damaged and apparently inoperable, such damage including but not limited to the following: missing wheels, tires, motor or transmission; and

         A.   Left uncovered in the open (not concealed within a building) for more than seventy-two hours on private property with the permission of the owner or person having the right to the possession of the property, except if the person is operating a junk yard or scrap metal processing facility licensed under authority of Ohio R.C. 4737.05 to 4737.12, or regulated under the authority of the Municipality, or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to the licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation; or if the motor vehicle is a collector's vehicle; or

         B.   Left uncovered in the open for more than seventy-two hours on public property except if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to the licensure or regulation by any governmental authority.
(Ord. 123-77. Passed 11-28-77.)

   (b)   No person shall be prevented from storing or keeping, or restricted in the method of storing or keeping, any collector's vehicle on private property with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, except that a person having such permission may be required to conceal by means of buildings, fences, vegetation, terrain or other suitable obstruction, any unlicensed collector's vehicle stored in the open.

   (c)   The Building and Zoning Inspector or his agent may send notice, by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the person having the right to the possession of the property on which a junk motor vehicle is left, that within ten days of receipt of the notice, the junk motor vehicle either shall be covered by being housed in a garage or other suitable structure or shall be removed from the property.

   (d)   No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than ten days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that a junk motor vehicle is so left is prima-facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice, and each subsequent period of thirty days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
(ORC 4513.65)

   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(ORC 4513.99(E))