(a) Permitted Storage. This chapter shall not apply to any motor vehicle or motor vehicle accessories stored within an enclosed building, or on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, or in a storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner, or to seasonal-use vehicles, such as, snowmobiles, motorcycles, motor scooters and non-motorized campers. As to junked motor vehicles or abandoned motor vehicles, such business enterprises shall include automobile junkyards, but not auto repair shops. As to motor vehicle accessories, junked motor vehicles and abandoned motor vehicles, such business enterprises shall include automobile junkyards, and auto repair and auto body shops, but shall not include automobile service stations or tire, battery and accessory sales stores.
(b) Bona Fide Repair. Where storage or parking of one junked motor vehicle on private property in other than a garage is for the purpose of bona fide repair of such vehicle, and the owner or occupant of such property, or the owner, operator or custodian of such motor vehicle, is not engaged in the business of automobile repair, but intends to make such repair, such owner or occupant of the property, or such owner, operator or custodian of such vehicle, as the case may be, shall apply to the City for a permit for storage or parking of one such vehicle in other than a garage during the course of its repair, for a period of 30 days. At the discretion of the Department, a repair permit may be renewed one time for an additional 30-day period, upon furnishing proof that the repairs to the vehicle were actually begun during the initial permit period, and that the delay in repairing the vehicle in the initial permit period was not caused by the inaction of the owner, operator or custodian of such vehicle.
(Ord. 4773. Passed 6-11-97.)