(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(2) "Vehicle" means a machine propelled by power, other than human power, designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides, and designed to transport persons or property or pull machinery, and includes, without limitation, an automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
(3) "Street" and "highway" mean the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, where any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(4) "Property" means any real property within the City which is not a street or highway.
(5) “Watercraft” means a vessel of any kind and description, including seaplanes, designed to be used as a means of transportation on water, whether powered by sail, mechanical or muscular effort.
(b) No person shall abandon any vehicle or watercraft within the City and no person shall leave any vehicle or watercraft in any place within the City for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle or watercraft reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(Ord. 188-1964. Passed 11-16-64.)
(c) No person in charge or control of any property within the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle or watercraft to remain on any property within the City for a longer time than five days. No person shall allow any vehicle without license plates, or with plates that have been expired for more than thirty days, on any property within the City. No person shall allow any watercraft without current registration, if required, to be stored on any property within the City.
(d) Division (c) of this section shall not apply to a vehicle or watercraft in an enclosed building; a vehicle or watercraft on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, and provided that such business enterprise is being operated in a place and manner which complies with the Zoning Code and general ordinances of the City; or a vehicle or watercraft in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the City.
(Ord. 137-1988. Passed 6-6-88.)
(e) The Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department designated by him or her, or the Commissioner of Zoning, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle left in any place within the City which reasonably appears to be in violation of this section, or lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Ohio R.C. 737.32.
(Ord. 142-1966. Passed 8-8-66.)
(f) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 599.02.
(Ord. 91-2006. Passed 5-15-06.)