(A) (1) For the purposes of this section,
JUNK MOTOR VEHICLE means any motor vehicle meeting the requirements of R.C. § 4513.63 that is left on private property for more than 72 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 R.C. §§ 4737.05 through 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.
(2) Persons may store or keep by unrestricted method any collector's vehicle as defined in 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.
(3) The Chief of Police, a state highway patrol trooper, the Council, or the zoning authority may send notice, by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the person having the right to the possession of the property on which a junk motor vehicle is left, that within ten days of receipt of the notice, the junk motor vehicle either shall be covered by being housed in a garage or other suitable structure, or shall be removed from the property.
(4) No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than ten 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 30 days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(R.C. § 4513.65) ('80 Code, § 70.14)