(a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms are defined as follows:
(1) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(2) "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.
(3) "Property" means discarded articles of all kinds which reasonably appear to be discarded or of no intrinsic value.
(4) "Junk" means any worn-out, castoff, or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some other use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new, shall not be considered junk.
(5) "Junk car" means any used vehicle propelled or intended to be propelled by power other than human power and which is in an inoperative or a partially dismantled condition. Portions of junk cars such as hoods, fenders, radiators, rims, motors, etc., not being utilized for the repair of a motor vehicle, shall be considered as junk.
(6) "Inoperative condition" means a vehicle, as above described, incapable of being propelled under its own power .
(7) "Partially dismantled condition" means a vehicle, as above described having some part or parts missing which is or are ordinarily an essential component thereof.
(b) Abandonment of Vehicles. No person shall abandon any vehicle within the Municipality and no person shall leave any vehicle at any place within the Municipality for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(c) Leaving of Wrecked, Nonoperating Vehicle on Street. No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the Municipality for more than seventy-two hours.
(d) Deposit, Storage, Maintenance or Collection Declared a Public Nuisance. Except as herein otherwise provided, the deposit, storage, maintenance or collection of junk or junk cars outside of a building or buildings is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and offensive to the public health, welfare and safety of the residents of this Municipality.
(e) Deposit, Storage, Maintenance or Collection Prohibited. No person in charge or control of any premises within the Municipality, whether as owner, tenant, lessee, occupant or otherwise, shall allow any junk or junk car to remain upon such premises longer than ten days after receipt of written notice to remove the junk or junk car from such premises, such written notice to be issued and delivered by the Chief of the Police Department or by any member of the Department duly designated by him.
Such written notice shall be served upon the person aforementioned either personally or at his usual place of residence or by registered or certified mail addressed to such person's last-known place of residence.
The provisions of this section, however, shall not apply to the deposit, storage, maintenance or collection of junk or junk cars in an enclosed building or in a container in a regularly established junk yard.
(Ord. 1969-788. Passed 12-16-69. )
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.