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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, nonoperating, wrecked, junked, or discarded vehicle to remain on such property longer than 15 days; and no person shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the City for a longer time than 15 days; except that this ordinance shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed building, a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of the business enterprise, or a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the City.
(Ord. 2420, passed 12-27-1973)
Any vehicle which does not possess a current year’s State license plate shall be presumed to be in violation of this ordinance and may be left or allowed to remain on property only in accordance with § 28-207.
(Ord. 2420, passed 12-27-1973)
ARTICLE XVIII. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
This following words, when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context of the ordinance:
COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT. Any construction equipment or large equipment used primarily in the course of conducting a trade or business.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Includes mobile structure trailers, pole trailers, semitrailers, and trucks; however, motor home recreational vehicles, recreational trailers, noncommercial buses and school buses shall be excluded.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT. Bulldozers, front-end loaders, power shovels, and other heavy construction equipment, or trailers designed for the transportation of such equipment.
MOBILE STRUCTURE TRAILER. A trailer that has a roof and walls and is at least ten (10) feet wide and which may be used off-road for commercial purposes.
OWNER. Any person in whose name the legal title is registered, titled, or in the event of a lease or conditional sales agreement, the lessee or person with the right of purchase and immediate right of possession.
POLE TRAILER. A vehicle without mode of power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach of pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, beams, trees, pallets, pipes, or structural members capable generally of staying themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. Any one-family residential, two-family residential, multiple-family residential or residential mobile home park or residential trailer park as defined and delineated in the Zoning Ordinance and Maps of the City of Flint.
SEMITRAILER. A trailer other than a pole trailer so constructed that a substantial part of its weight rests upon or is carried by a truck.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA. Any one-family residential district as defined and delineated in the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Maps of the City of Flint.
TRUCK. Any single motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or more.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (C), no person shall park or store any commercial vehicle, commercial equipment, construction equipment, mobile structures, or pole trailers upon any public property located in any zoning district, including but not limited to public streets, stub streets, rights-of- way, sidewalks, and planting areas between sidewalks and curbs.
(b) The parking of commercial vehicles, commercial equipment, construction equipment, mobile structures or pole trailers, in any residential district shall be limited to the use of such articles in the performance of a service to the adjacent property for a reasonable period of the time necessary to complete such service.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
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