(a) No person shall park or store or permit to be parked or stored, on any private property, in the Municipality an unlicensed motor vehicle or any motor vehicle which is not in operating condition, except in an enclosed building or garage.
(b) Any motor vehicle parked or stored in violation of this section, after fifteen days notice of such violation from the Chief of Police, mailed or delivered to the owner or person in possession of the premises upon which any such motor vehicle is parked or stored, may be removed to a motor vehicle pound or other place of storage by a police officer and shall not be released except upon payment of towing and storage charges. Vehicles so removed may be disposed of according to the provisions of Ohio R.C. 737.32. The absence of current license plates from any such vehicle shall be prima-facie evidence that the same is unlicensed not in operating condition. (Ord. 1159-71. Passed 7-6-71.)
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.