The location or presence of any junked vehicle or junked vehicles on any lot, tract or parcel of land or any portion thereof, occupied or unoccupied, improved or unimproved, within the city shall be deemed a public nuisance and it shall be unlawful for any person to maintain such a public nuisance or to permit or allow the same to exist on his or her property or on the property of another provided that this section shall not apply with regard to a junked vehicle or junked vehicles: in an enclosed building, a junked vehicle or junked vehicles or an antique or special interest vehicle owned by a motor vehicle collection on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise; if these vehicles are maintained in an orderly manner; not a health hazard and are screened from ordinary public view by appropriate means, including a fence, trees or shrubbery; a junked vehicle or junked vehicles in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the city; or to vehicles in operable condition specially adapted or constructed for racing or operation on privately owned drag strips or raceways.
(Ord. 01-87, passed 3-2-1987; Ord. 09032, passed 9-8-2003) Penalty, see § 91.99