(a) As used in this section, JUNK VEHICLE means any vehicle, including a trailer, which is in a rusted, wrecked, discarded, abandoned, dismantled, partly dismantled or inoperative condition.
(b) No person shall place, stand or park a junk vehicle upon any public street, public ground or upon any private property in the city.
(c) Notice of the removal and impounding of the junk vehicle and the time and place of the proposed sale thereof shall be sent to the owner by certified mail, return receipt requested, directed to his or her last known address, if such owner and an address can be ascertained. If either the owner or an address for the owner cannot be ascertained, or if such owner cannot be located for the delivery of such mailed notice, the city shall publish a legal notice of the removal and impounding of the junk vehicle and the time and place of the proposed sale thereof once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. If the owner makes no claim to such junk vehicle within ten days of the receipt of such mailed notice or of the publication of such legal notice, he or she shall forfeit all rights to such junk vehicle and shall thereby be barred from asserting any interest therein. Such junk vehicle shall then become the property of the city to be sold at the time and place specified in the notice. Provided however any abandoned junk motor vehicle impounded under authority of § 307.03(b) shall be disposed of as provided in Ohio R.C. 4513.63.
(d) Any net proceeds from the sale of such junk vehicles shall be credited to the General Fund of the city.