(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.
(b) 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. (A.O.)
(c) Council, Board of Township Trustees, the Chief of Police or the Municipal or Township 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. Personal service of notice to remove junk or abandoned vehicles upon the property owner shall be acceptable and be deemed equivalent to notice by certified mail.
(d) 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 day that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate minor misdemeanor offense. (Ord. 95-29. Passed 1-2-96.)
(e) Although a Demolition Derby vehicle is an Unlicensed Junk Vehicle, it shall be permissible to have one such vehicle on property within the Village during the period of June 15th to September 15th, provided that:
(1) Obtain a permit from the Village office at a cost of $10.00.
(2) Put the permit on the car in a conspicuous place.
(3) Permit is only good from June 15 to September 15. After which time the car must be removed from the property or it will be considered a junk vehicle and be subject to all laws of the Village of New London.
(Ord. 94-13. Passed 8-16-94.)
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.65)