(a) No abandoned motor vehicle, as defined in this chapter, shall be parked, stored or left to remain on any lot, tract or parcel of land or portion thereof, whether occupied or unoccupied, improved or unimproved, within the City of Johnstown, as further described in this section, unless permitted by Section 468.06(a).
(b) A motor vehicle shall be presumed to be abandoned if it exhibits any of the following circumstances and a code officer has investigated such conditions below and has found the abandoned/junked vehicle to be in a nuisance condition as defined in Section 468.05:
(1) An invalid registration plate;
(2) An invalid certificate of inspection;
(3) An identification number which cannot be ascertained;
(4) Is incapable of being moved under its own power;
(5) Has not been moved for a continuous period of more than 30 days; or
(6) Has remained on private property without the consent of the property owner or person in control of the property for a period of more than 48 hours.
(c) To the extent that an abandoned motor vehicle may also be deemed or classified as a junked motor vehicle, as defined in Section 468.03(c), that subsection shall control over this section.
(Ord. 4773. Passed 6-11-97; Ord. 5222. Passed 2-8-17.)