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GENERAL PROVISIONS
All junkyards within the corporate limits shall be operated and maintained subject to the following regulations.
(A) All junk stored or kept in such yards shall be so kept that it will not catch and hold water in which mosquitoes may breed and so that it will not constitute a place or places in which rats, mice or other vermin may be harbored, reared or propagated.
(B) All such junkyards shall be enclosed within close-fitting plank or metal solid fences touching the ground on the bottom and being not less than six feet in height, such fence to be built so that it will be impossible for stray cats and/or stray dogs to have access to such junkyards.
(C) Such yards shall be so maintained as to be in a sanitary condition and so as not to be a menace to the public health or safety.
(D) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNKYARD.
(1) JUNKYARD means an establishment or place of business that is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard. JUNKYARD includes scrap metal processors, used auto parts yards, yards providing temporary storage of automobile bodies or parts awaiting disposal as a normal part of the business operation, when the business will continually have like materials located on the premises, garbage dumps and sanitary landfills.
(2) JUNKYARD does not include a recycling center.
(Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-20-103)
(1994 Code, § 13-301) Penalty, see § 92.99
JUNK VEHICLES
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED. Any motor vehicle that does not display current tags and/or where an owner cannot show proof of insurance or any motor vehicle that has remained illegally on public property for a period of more than 48 hours without consent of the owner or person in control of the property for more than 48 hours.
JUNK VEHICLE. A vehicle of any age that is damaged or defective in any one or combination of any of the following ways that either makes the vehicle immediately inoperable, or would prohibit the vehicle from being operated in a reasonably safe manner upon the public streets and highways under its own power if self-propelled, or while being towed or pushed, if not self-propelled:
(1) Flat tires, missing tires, missing wheels or missing or partially or totally disassembled tires and wheels;
(2) Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled essential part or parts of the vehicle’s drive train, including, but not limited to, engine, transmission, clutch, transaxle, drive shaft, differential or axle;
(3) Extensive exterior body damage or missing or partially or totally disassembled essential body parts, including, but not limited to, fenders, doors, engine hood, bumper or bumpers, windshield or windows;
(4) Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled essential interior parts, including, but not limited to, driver’s seat, steering wheel, instrument panel, clutch pedal, brake pedal, gear shift lever;
(5) Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled parts essential to the starting or running of the vehicle under its own power, including, but not limited to, starter, generator or alternator, battery, distributor, gas tank, carburetor or fuel injection system, spark plugs, brakes or radiator;
(6) Interior is a container for metal, glass, paper, rags or other cloth, wood, auto parts, machinery, waste or discarded materials in such quantity, quality and arrangement that a driver cannot be properly seated in the vehicle;
(7) Lying on the ground (upside down, on its side or at other extreme angle), sitting on block or suspended in the air by any other method; and
(8) General environment in which the vehicle sits, including, but not limited to, vegetation that has grown up around, in or through the vehicle, the collection of pools of water in the vehicle and the accumulation of other garbage or debris around the vehicle.
PERSON. Any natural person, or any firm, partnership, association, corporation or other organization of any kind and description.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. All property that is not public property, regardless of how the property is zoned or used.
TRAVELED PORTION OF ANY PUBLIC STREET OR HIGHWAY. The width of the street from curb to curb, or where there are no curbs, the entire width of the paved portion of the street, or where the street is unpaved, the entire width of the street in which vehicles ordinarily use for travel.
VEHICLE. Any machine propelled by power other than human power, designed to travel along the ground by the use of wheels, treads, self-laying tracks, runners, slides or skids, including, but not limited to, automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor scooters, go-carts, campers, tractors, trailers, tractor-trailers, buggies, wagons and earth-moving equipment, and any part of the same.
(1994 Code, § 13-401)
(Ord. 584, passed 12-13-1999; Ord. 823, passed 8-27-2018)
It shall be unlawful and a civil offense for any person:
(A) To park and/or in any other manner place and leave unattended on the traveled portion of any public street or highway a junk vehicle for any period of time, even if the owner or operator of the vehicle did not intend to permanently desert or forsake the vehicle;
(B) To park or in any other manner place and leave unattended on the untraveled portion of any street or highway, or upon any other public property, a junk vehicle for more than 48 continuous hours, even if the owner or operator of the vehicle did not intend to permanently desert or forsake the vehicle; and/or
(C) To park, store, keep, maintain on private property a junk vehicle for more than 60 days.
(1994 Code, § 13-402) (Ord. 584, passed 12-13-1999) Penalty, see § 92.99
(A) It shall be permissible for a person to park, store, keep and maintain a junked vehicle on private property under the following conditions:
(1) The junk vehicle is completely enclosed within a building where neither the vehicle, nor any part of it, is visible from the street or from any other abutting property. However, this exception shall not exempt the owner or person in possession of the property from any zoning, building, housing, property maintenance and other regulations governing the building in which such vehicle is enclosed; and/or
(2) The junk vehicle is parked or stored on property lawfully zoned for the parking or storage of such vehicles. However, this exception shall not exempt the owner or occupant of the property from any other zoning, building, property maintenance and other regulations governing the manner in which such vehicles can be kept on such property.
(B) No person shall park, store, keep and maintain on private property a junk vehicle for any period of time if it poses an immediate threat to the health and safety of citizens of the city.
(1994 Code, § 13-403) (Ord. 584, passed 12-13-1999) Penalty, see § 92.99
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