MATERIALS.
(a) For the purpose of this section, "suitable structure" shall mean any garage or other building enclosed on all sides and having a roof.
(b) No person shall park or store or permit to be parked or stored, on any property in the Municipality, motor vehicles which have been abandoned or dismantled, or which are inoperative or immobile, or parts of motor vehicles or other materials and equipment, scrap, junk or refuse. No vehicle shall be parked or stored on other than an area which has been paved. Paving shall consist of a hard surface of concrete, asphalt or material which shall be consistent with the existing driveway surface approved by the City.
(c) No motor vehicle without a current license plate shall be so parked or left on any premises in the Municipality outside of a garage or other suitable structure, as defined in subsection (a) hereof, for more than fourteen days.
(d) The parking or leaving of abandoned, dismantled, inoperative or immobile motor vehicles, parts of motor vehicles or other materials and equipment, scrap, junk or refuse, in yards, or the parking of a motor vehicle in a yard for more than fourteen days without a current license plate thereon, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and a violation of this section.
(e) The City shall send notice, by certified mail, with return receipt requested, to the person having the right to the possession of the property on which motor vehicles which have been abandoned or dismantled, or which are inoperative or immobile, or parts of motor vehicles or other materials and equipment, scrap, junk or refuse, is left, that within ten days of receipt of the notice, the item(s) either shall be concealed by being housed in a garage or other suitable structure or shall be removed from the property.
(f) No person shall willfully leave motor vehicles which have been abandoned or dismantled, or which are inoperative or immobile, or parts of motor vehicles or other materials and equipment, scrap, junk or refuse, in the open for more than ten days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that the item(s) is so left is prima-facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice and each subsequent period of thirty days that the item or items continue to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
(g) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense. For a second offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. For each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 25-93. Passed 5-25-93.)