Skip to code content (skip section selection)
Compare to:
North Liberty Overview
North Liberty, IA Code of Ordinances
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NORTH LIBERTY, IOWA
SUPPLEMENT RECORD
GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 2 CHARTER
CHAPTER 3 MUNICIPAL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 5 OPERATING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 6 CITY ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 7 FISCAL MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 8 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS
CHAPTER 9 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION
CHAPTER 10 URBAN RENEWAL
CHAPTER 11 URBAN REVITALIZATION
CHAPTER 15 MAYOR
CHAPTER 16 MAYOR PRO TEM
CHAPTER 17 CITY COUNCIL
CHAPTER 18 CITY CLERK
CHAPTER 19 CITY TREASURER
CHAPTER 20 CITY ATTORNEY
CHAPTER 21 CITY ADMINISTRATOR
CHAPTER 22 PUBLIC LIBRARY
CHAPTER 23 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION
CHAPTER 24 TREE AND STORM WATER ADVISORY BOARD
CHAPTER 25 COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION
CHAPTER 26 CEMETERY BOARD
CHAPTER 30 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 35 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 36 HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SPILLS
CHAPTER 37 KEY LOCK BOX SYSTEM
CHAPTER 40 PUBLIC PEACE
CHAPTER 41 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 42 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
CHAPTER 43 CLANDESTINE LABORATORIES / GROW OPERATIONS
CHAPTER 45 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND INTOXICATION
CHAPTER 46 MINORS
CHAPTER 47 PARK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 48 DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
CHAPTER 49 SMOKEFREE PLACES
CHAPTER 50 NUISANCE ABATEMENT PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 51 JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES
CHAPTER 52 WEEDS AND GRASS
CHAPTER 53 NOISE
CHAPTER 55 ANIMAL CONTROL
CHAPTER 56 CAT AND DOG LICENSES
CHAPTER 57 DANGEROUS ANIMALS
CHAPTER 60 ADMINISTRATION OF TRAFFIC CODE
CHAPTER 61 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
CHAPTER 62 GENERAL TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 63 SPEED REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 64 TURNING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 65 STOP OR YIELD REQUIRED
CHAPTER 66 LOAD AND WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS
CHAPTER 67 PEDESTRIANS
CHAPTER 68 ONE-WAY TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 69 PARKING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 70 TRAFFIC CODE ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 74 OPERATION OF GOLF CARTS ON CITY STREETS
CHAPTER 75 ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES AND SNOWMOBILES
CHAPTER 76 BICYCLE REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 77 VEHICLE NOISE AND EMISSION STANDARDS
CHAPTER 80 ABANDONED VEHICLES
CHAPTER 90 WATER SERVICE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 91 WATER METERS
CHAPTER 92 WATER RATES
CHAPTER 93 PRIVATE WELLS AND WATER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 94 WATER RATIONING
CHAPTER 94A WELLHEAD PROTECTION
CHAPTER 95 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 96 BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER 97 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS
CHAPTER 98 ON-SITE WASTEWATER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 99 SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
CHAPTER 100 STORM WATER MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 101 STORM WATER COLLECTION, DISCHARGE AND RUNOFF
CHAPTER 105 SOLID WASTE CONTROL
CHAPTER 106 COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 110 NATURAL GAS FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 111 ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 112 TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 113 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE (SOUTH SLOPE COOPERATIVE)
CHAPTER 114 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE (GALAXY TELECOM, L.P.)
CHAPTER 115 CABLE TELEVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 116 RESIDENTIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE STANDARD
CHAPTER 117 RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 118 ITC ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 120 LIQUOR LICENSES AND WINE AND BEER PERMITS
CHAPTER 121 CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO PERMITS
CHAPTER 122 PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS
CHAPTER 123 HOUSE MOVERS
CHAPTER 124 MOBILE FOOD UNITS
CHAPTER 125 ELECTRICIAN AND PLUMBER LICENSES
CHAPTER 126 LICENSING OF TAXI SERVICE
CHAPTER 127 SANITARY SEWER AND WATER SERVICE INSTALLER LICENSES
CHAPTER 135 STREET USE AND MAINTENANCE
CHAPTER 136 SIDEWALK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 137 VACATION AND DISPOSAL OF STREETS
CHAPTER 138 STREET GRADES
CHAPTER 139 NAMING OF STREETS
CHAPTER 140 CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITIES
CHAPTER 145 MANUFACTURED AND MOBILE HOMES
CHAPTER 146 HOUSING CODE
CHAPTER 150 TREES
CHAPTER 155 CONSTRUCTION SITE EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CHAPTER 156 POST-CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER RUNOFF CONTROL
CHAPTER 157 BUILDING CODE
CHAPTER 158 FIRE CODE
CHAPTER 165 ZONING CODE - ADMINISTRATIVE
CHAPTER 166 ZONING CODE - ORGANIZATION AND ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 167 ZONING CODE - DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 168 ZONING CODE - ZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 169 ZONING CODE - DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 170 RESERVED
CHAPTER 171 ZONING CODE - NONCONFORMING, CONDITIONAL, AND TEMPORARY USES
CHAPTER 172 ZONING CODE - COMMUNICATION TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
CHAPTER 173 ZONING CODE - SIGN REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 180 SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
APPENDIX:
CHAPTER 51
JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES
 
51.01 Definitions
51.04 Exceptions
51.02 Junk and Junk Vehicles Prohibited
51.05 Notice to Abate
51.03 Junk and Junk Vehicles a Nuisance
 
 
51.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For use in this chapter, the following terms are defined:
   1.   “Junk” means all old or scrap copper, brass, lead, or any other non-ferrous metal; old or discarded rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste or used lumber, or salvaged wood; dismantled vehicles, machinery and appliances or parts of such vehicles, machinery or appliances; iron, steel or other old or scrap ferrous materials; old or discarded glass, tinware, plastic or old or discarded household goods or hardware. Neatly stacked firewood located on a side yard or a rear yard is not considered junk.
   2.   “Junk vehicle” means any vehicle legally placed in storage with the County Treasurer or unlicensed and which has any of the following characteristics:
      A.   Broken Glass. Any vehicle with a broken or cracked windshield, window, headlight or tail light, or any other cracked or broken glass.
      B.   Broken, Loose, or Missing Part. Any vehicle with a broken, loose, or missing fender, door, bumper, hood, steering wheel or trunk lid.
      C.   Habitat for Nuisance Animals or Insects. Any vehicle which has become the habitat for rats, mice, snakes, or any other vermin or insects.
      D.   Flammable Fuel. Any vehicle which contains gasoline or any other flammable fuel.
      E.   Inoperable. Any motor vehicle which lacks an engine or two or more wheels or other structural parts, rendering said motor vehicle totally inoperable, or which cannot be moved under its own power or has not been used as an operating vehicle for a period of thirty (30) days or more.
      F.   Defective or Obsolete Condition. Any other vehicle which, because of its defective or obsolete condition, in any other way constitutes a threat to the public health and safety.
   Mere licensing of such vehicle shall not constitute a defense to the finding that the vehicle is a junk vehicle.
   3.   “Vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, and includes without limitation a motor vehicle, automobile, truck, motorcycle, tractor, buggy, wagon, farm machinery, or any combination thereof.
51.02 JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES PROHIBITED.
   It is unlawful for any person to store, accumulate, or allow to remain on any private property within the corporate limits of the City any junk or junk vehicle.
51.03 JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES A NUISANCE.
   It is hereby declared that any junk or junk vehicle located upon private property, unless excepted by Section 51.04, constitutes a threat to the health and safety of the citizens and is a nuisance within the meaning of Section 657.1 of the Code of Iowa. If any junk or junk vehicle is kept upon private property in violation hereof, the owner of or person occupying the property upon which it is located shall be prima facie liable for said violation.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[3a])
51.04 EXCEPTIONS.
   The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any junk or a junk vehicle stored within:
   1.   Structure. A garage or other enclosed structure; or
   2.   Salvage Yard. An auto salvage yard or junk yard lawfully operated within the City.
51.05 NOTICE TO ABATE.
   Upon discovery of any junk or junk vehicle located upon private property in violation of Section 51.03, the City may initiate abatement procedures as outlined in Chapter 50 of this Code of Ordinances.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[3a])