As used in this chapter:
(a) "Junk motor vehicle."
(1) Any motor vehicle which meets all of the following requirements:
A. Left on private property for more than seventy-two hours other than in an enclosed garage, on a public street or other property open to the public for the purpose of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right-of-way of any road or highway, for forty-eight hours or longer;
B. Three years old or older;
C. Extensively damaged or deteriorated, such damage or deterioration including, but not limited to, any of the following: a broken window or windshield, missing wheels, tires, motors or transmission;
D. Apparently inoperable;
E. Having a fair market value of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) or less.
(2) A wrecked vehicle being held for repair at an automobile service garage or body shop and a licensed collector's vehicle shall be exempt from the provisions of this definition.
(b) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle, including mobile homes and recreational vehicles, that is propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires. "Motor vehicle" does not include motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers that are used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay-baling machinery, corn sheller, hammermill and agricultural tractors, machinery used in the production of horticultural, agricultural, and vegetable products, and trailers that are designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a public road or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less.
(c) "Unlicensed motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle not having affixed thereto current license plates of the state in which such automobile is registered.
(d) "Vehicle" means everything on wheels or runners, including motorized bicycles, but does not mean electric personal assistive mobility devices, vehicles that are operated exclusively on rails or tracks or from overhead electric trolley wires, and vehicles that belong to any police department, municipal fire department, or volunteer fire department, or that are used by such a department in the discharge of its functions.
(Ord. 21-04. Passed 11-8-04.)