(A) The purpose of this chapter is to ensure the public health, safety and general welfare by providing controls on the removal and disposal of abandoned and junked motor vehicles. Among other reasons, this chapter is deemed necessary to prohibit abandoned or junked vehicles from being disposed of by leaving them on public or private property. Abandoned and junked vehicles constitute a hazard to the health and welfare of the people of the county in that the vehicles can harbor diseases, furnish shelter and breeding places for mosquitoes and other insects, and are a breeding ground and harbor for rats and other pests. Abandoned and junked motor vehicles constitute a hazard to the safety of the people of the county in that the vehicles can have areas of confinement which cannot be opened from the inside such as trunk compartments and engine compartments and present physical dangers to the safety and well-being of children and other citizens.
(B) It is therefore in the public interest that the present accumulation of abandoned and junked motor vehicles be eliminated and that the future abandonment of the vehicles be prevented.
(Ord. passed 7-1-87)