For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED VEHICLE. As authorized and defined in G.S. § 160A-303, an ABANDONED VEHICLE is one that:
(1) Is left upon a public street or highway in violation of a law or ordinance prohibiting parking;
(2) Is left on a public street or highway for longer than seven days;
(3) Is left on property owned or operated by the town for longer than 24 hours; or
(4) Is left on private property without the consent of the owner, occupant or lessee thereof, for longer than two hours.
AUTHORIZING OFFICIAL. The Police Officer/Building Inspector, respectively, designated to authorize the removal of vehicles under the provisions of this chapter.
JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLE. As authorized and defined in G.S. § 160A-303.2, the term JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLE means a vehicle that does not display a current license plate upon that vehicle and that:
(1) Is partially dismantled or wrecked;
(2) Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it originally was intended to move; or
(3) Is more than five years old and appears to be worth less than $500.
MOTOR VEHICLE or VEHICLE. All machines designed or intended to travel over land by self-propulsion or while attached to any self-propelled vehicle.
NUISANCE VEHICLE. A vehicle on public or private property that is determined and declared to be a health or safety hazard, a public nuisance and unlawful, including a vehicle found to be:
(1) A breeding ground or harbor for mosquitoes, other insects, rats or other pests;
(2) A point of heavy growth of weeds or other noxious vegetation over eight inches in height;
(3) A point of collection of pools or ponds of water;
(4) A point of concentration of quantities of gasoline, oil or other flammable or explosive materials as evidenced by odor;
(5) One which has areas of confinement, such as trunks, hoods and the like, which cannot be operated from inside the area of confinement;
(6) One so situated or located that there is a danger of it falling or turning over;
(7) One which is a point of collection of garbage, food waste, animal waste or any other rotten or putrescible matter of any kind;
(8) One which has sharp parts thereof which are jagged or contain sharp edges of metal, glass; or
(9) Any other vehicle specifically declared a health and safety hazard and a public nuisance by the Board.
(Ord. O-07-003, passed 1-7-2008; Ord. 20- , passed 2- -2020)