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The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any person who is duly licensed or authorized by any ordinances or regulations of the City, to have and store unlicensed and inoperable motor vehicles or both on their premises. Specifically excluded herein are vehicles of a commercial wrecker service, automobile repair shop vehicles and motor vehicles of automobile dealers, both new and used.
No person shall willfully leave any vehicle or an "abandoned junk motor vehicle" as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63 on private property for more than seventy-two consecutive hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right of way of any road or highway, for forty-eight consecutive hours or longer, without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving the vehicle in such place.
For purposes of this section, the fact that a vehicle has been so left without permission or notification is prima-facie evidence of abandonment. Nothing contained in this section shall invalidate the provisions of other ordinances regulating or prohibiting the abandonment of motor vehicles on streets, highways, public property or private property within the Municipality.
(ORC 4513.64)
A police officer may order into storage any vehicle or "abandoned junk motor vehicle" as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63 which is left on private property for more than seventy-two consecutive hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right of way of any road or highway, for forty-eight consecutive hours or longer, without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving such vehicle in such place. Prior to removal of an "abandoned junk motor vehicle" as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63, it shall be photographed by a law enforcement officer in the place where abandoned.
The City Manager is further authorized to adopt rules and to enter into agreements with the owners or operators of places of storage as he may designate so as to provide compensation to such owners or operators. Such agreements shall be issued subject to cancellation at the sole discretion of the Manager, and without the necessity of cause.
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