A. This chapter is enacted under the authority of Section 22660 of the California Vehicle Code to establish procedures for the abatement and removal, as public nuisances, of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof, from private or public property within the city, excluding highways, and for recovery of the costs of such removal and administration of this chapter.
B. The accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property, excluding highways, is found to create conditions tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harborage for rodents and insects, and to be injurious to the health, safety, and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle, or part thereof, on private or public property, excluding highways, except as expressly permitted in this chapter, is declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 105 § 2 (part), 1993: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 6.06.010)