Pursuant to the authority granted by the State of California under Vehicle Code § 22660 to abate and remove abandoned, dismantled, inoperative, junked, and wrecked vehicles, and/or parts thereof as public nuisances, and in accordance with the County’s constitutional police power authority, the Board of Supervisors makes the following findings and declaration:
(a) Findings. The accumulation and storage of dismantled, wrecked, inoperative, junked, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, on private or public property (other than streets and highways which are regulated by the Vehicle Code) is found to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private and public property, to promote blight and deterioration, invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harborage for rodents and insects and to be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare of the public.
(b) Declaration. The presence of abandoned, dismantled, inoperative, junked or wrecked vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property (other than on streets, public roadways, alleys, rights-of-way and highways) in the unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, except as expressly permitted in this Chapter, is declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
(Am. Ord. 2996, passed - -1986; Am. Ord. 3283, passed - -1988; Am. Ord. 3349, passed - -1989; Am. Ord. 4401, passed - -2021)