As used in this chapter:
A. The term "vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, except a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;
B. The term "highway" means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes "street";
C. The term "public property" does not include "highway";
D. The term "inoperative vehicle" includes all vehicles which, through absence or deteriorated condition of mechanical parts including engine, transmission, driving axle, tires and wheels is unable to be operated on a highway. Additionally, vehicles which are (1) without current registration pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 4000.4, or (2) are without the safety equipment required by Division 12 of the California Vehicle Code shall also be considered inoperative;
E. The term "abandoned vehicle" includes those vehicles, operative or inoperative which have been left by their operators upon private property for over seventy-two consecutive hours, and whose owners cannot be located or contacted by telephone or first-class mail within one hundred twenty hours thereafter to move the vehicle. (Ord. 2637 § 1, 1988; Ord. 1533 § 1 (part), 1968).