The following acts are hereby declared to be nuisances:
(A) The storing, keeping, or maintaining of inoperable motor vehicles, outside of an enclosed building, after notice has been given to a person, corporation, or other such controlling agent for removal of such vehicles.
(1) Nothing in division (A) above shall apply to any motor vehicle kept within an enclosed building when not in use.
(2) Nothing in division (A) above shall apply to motor vehicles on the premises of a place of businesses properly engaged in the wrecking or junking of motor vehicles.
(B) INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLES shall, for the purpose of this section, be defined as:
(1) Any motor vehicle from which, for a period of not less than 15 days, the engine, wheels, or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels, or other parts have been altered, damaged, or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power; and
(2) INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLES shall not include a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its motor power in order to perform ordinary and routine service or repair operations.
(Prior Code, § 3-7-3) (Ord. passed 7-19-1994)