§ 96.04 IMPOUNDING OF MOTOR VEHICLES OR JUNK MOTOR VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

   (A)   No person in charge or control of any private property within the corporation limits of the city, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall leave or suffer to remain on his or her said property licensed, unused, wrecked, partly dismantled, inoperative and/or abandoned vehicle, whether owned by him or her or another person, except in an enclosed building in a duly licensed junkyard.

   (B)   Any motor vehicle parked or stored in violation of division (A) above, other than an abandoned junk motor vehicle as defined in § 96.01(F) and vehicles in a towing service yard as specifically regulated in §§ 96.02(A) and 96.06 shall, after ten days, be removed to a motor vehicle pound or any other place of storage by order of the City Manager of the city or his or her agent or the Chief of Police, and shall not be released except upon payment of towing and storage charges and fines as specified in § 96.99. The absence of current license plates from any such motor vehicle shall be prima facie evidence that the same is unlicensed and not in operating condition.

   (C)   The fact that an unlicensed motor vehicle is so left is prima facie evidence of willful failure to comply with §§ 96.02(A) and/or 96.04(A), and each subsequent period of 30 days after notification to remove such vehicle, that such vehicle continues to be left constitutes a separate offense.

(Prior Code, § 7.07.04) Penalty, see § 96.99