(a) Junked vehicles, as defined in this chapter, are detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tending to reduce the value of private property, to invite vandalism, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and are detrimental to the economic welfare of the city by producing urban blight which is adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the city; and such vehicles are, therefore, declared to be a public nuisance.
(b) This declaration is made pursuant to Tex. Transportation Code Chapter 683, Subchapter E. This division adopts municipal procedures that conform to Tex. Transportation Code Chapter 683, Subchapter E for the abatement and removal from private or public property or a public right-of-way of a junked vehicle or part of a junked vehicle as a public nuisance.
(Ord. 12938, § 2, passed 4-1-1997; Ord. 16539, § 2, passed 8-9-2005; Ord. 18441-01-2009, § 2, passed 1-13-2009)