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)