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For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED VEHICLE. A motor vehicle shall be deemed to have been abandoned in the following circumstances.
(1) It is left unattended upon a street or highway for longer than 12 hours in violation of a law or ordinance prohibiting parking.
(2) It is left unaccompanied on property owned or operated by the town for a period longer than 72 hours.
(3) It is left unaccompanied on any public street or highway for a period longer than five days.
(4) It is left on private property without the consent of the owner, occupant, or lessee thereof for longer than two hours.
JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLE.
(1) An abandoned motor vehicle that also:
(a) Is partially dismantled or wrecked;
(b) Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it originally was intended to move; or
(c) Does not display a current license plate.
(2) Except that a vehicle which is located on private property and is fully covered by a manufactured car cover and is not surrounded by overgrown weeds or grass shall not be considered a junked motor vehicle.
(A) (1) If a motor vehicle is abandoned or junked on a public street or highway, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the owner of such motor vehicle to cause the removal thereof immediately and to pay all costs incident to such removal.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to allow a motor vehicle owned by him or her to remain abandoned on a public street or highway after notice has been duly given to such person to have the vehicle removed.
(B) (1) If a motor vehicle is junked on private property, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the owner of such motor vehicle to cause the removal thereof immediately and to pay all costs incident to such removal.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to allow a motor vehicle owned by him or her to remain junked on private property after notice has been duly given to such person to have the vehicle removed.
(Prior Code, § 90.03) Penalty, see § 90.99
Whenever any motor vehicle is abandoned or junked on a public street or highway, or on property owned or operated by the town, or on private property, any such vehicle may be removed by or under the direction of the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, to a storage garage or area; provided, no merely abandoned vehicle shall be removed from private property without the written request or permission of the owner, lessee, or occupant thereof unless the same has been declared by the town to be a health or safety hazard.
(Prior Code, § 90.04)
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