(a) For the purposes of this section, "junk motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle meeting the requirements of Ohio R.C. 4513.63(B) to (E) that is left uncovered in the open on private property for more than seventy-two hours with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, except if the person is operating a junk yard or scrap metal processing facility licensed under authority of Ohio R.C. 4737.05 to 4737.12; or regulated under authority of the Municipality; or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation, or if the motor vehicle is a collector's vehicle.
Persons may store or keep by unrestricted method any collector's vehicle as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01(F) on private property with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property; except that such person having such permission shall conceal, by means of buildings, fences, vegetation, terrain or other suitable obstruction, any unlicensed collector's vehicle stored in the open.
The Village Administrator or the Code Enforcement Officer shall first publish notice on the vehicle to be removed a dated notice indicating that the vehicle shall be removed within three (3) days. If the vehicle is not removed within the time period prescribed, the Village Administrator or Code Enforcement Officer shall send a second notice to the owner of the real property where the junk motor vehicle is found by Certified U.S. Mail, return receipt requested according to law. Said notice shall set forth that the junk motor vehicle shall be covered by housing in a garage or other structure or removed from the real property within ten (10) days.
No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than thirteen days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that a junk motor vehicle is so left is prima-facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice. Each subsequent period of thirty days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
(Ord. 33-2013. Passed 10-1-13; Ord. 31-2016. Passed 6-27-16.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be summoned to Mayor’s Court or any other Court of competent jurisdiction by the New Boston Police Department or other duly appointed law enforcement agency.
(Ord. 31-2016. Passed 6-27-16.)