(A) Junked vehicles and vehicle accessories which are located in any place where they are visible from a public place or public right-of-way, are detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public tending to reduce the value of private property, to invite vandalism, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and are detrimental to the economic welfare of the state and the City of Canton, Texas, by producing urban blight which is adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the municipalities of the State of Texas, including the City of Canton, and such vehicles are therefore, declared to be a public nuisance.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person owning or having custody of any junked vehicle or vehicle accessories to store or permit any such junked vehicle or vehicle accessories to remain on any private property within the City of Canton, Texas, for a period of more than ten days after the receipt of a notice requiring such removal, and it shall further be unlawful for any person owning any private property in the City of Canton, Texas, to store or to permit to remain any such junked vehicle or vehicle accessories on his or her property for more than a like period. The storage is declared to be a public nuisance and may be abated or removed and penalties imposed as provided in this subchapter.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person, after notification to remove any junked vehicle or vehicle accessories from any private property has been given, to move the same to any other private property upon which the storage is not permitted or onto any public highway or public property for purposes of storage.
(Ord. 99-09, passed 7-20-1999)