(a) For purposes of this section, "junk motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle meeting the requirements of Section 355.04 (b) to (e), that is left uncovered in the open on private property for more than seventy-two hours with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, except if the person is operating a junkyard or scrap metal processing facility licensed under authority of Sections 721.01 to 721.99 of the Codified Ordinances; or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation.
(b) The Chief of Police, within his territorial jurisdiction, Council or the Zoning Board of Appeals may send notice, by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the person having the right to the possession of the property on which a junk motor vehicle is left, that within ten days of receipt of the notice, the junk motor vehicle either shall be covered by being housed in a garage or other suitable structure, or shall be removed from the property.
(c) No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than ten days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that a junk motor vehicle is so left is prima facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice, and each subsequent period of thirty days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense. (Ord. 98-1974. Passed 12-9-74.)