(a) (1) No person shall willfully leave any vehicle or an "abandoned junk motor vehicle" as defined in Ohio R.C. 4513.63 on private property for more than seventy-two consecutive hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right of way of any road or highway, for forty-eight consecutive hours or longer, without notification to the Police Chief of the reasons for leaving the vehicle in such place.
(2) For purposes of this section, the fact that a vehicle has been so left without permission or notification is prima-facie evidence of abandonment. Nothing contained in this section shall invalidate the provisions of other ordinances regulating or prohibiting the abandonment of motor vehicles on streets, highways, public property or private property within the Municipality. (ORC 4513.64)
(b) Private Property.
(1) Except for those commercial establishments, that as part of the use permitted by the Newton Falls Zoning Ordinance calls for the storage of motor vehicles, no person shall park, store or permit to be parked or stored for a period of more than thirty days an unlicensed motor vehicle or any part or parts thereof upon any lot or land, unless it shall be in a completely enclosed building or garage.
(2) The Police Department is authorized at any time, to serve notice on property owners or persons in possession of any such lot or land upon which an unlicensed motor vehicle or any part or parts thereof are stored in violation of this ordinance.
(3) Such period of thirty days shall commence to run the next day following the service of such notice.
(4) Whoever violates any provision of this subsection is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on the first offense. For each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day that an unlicensed motor vehicle remains on such premises.
(Ord. 2002-3. Passed 3-18-02.)