(A) The accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property not including highways is found to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to 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.
(B) Therefore, it is unlawful for the owner or person in control of any private or public property other than a highway to keep or allow to remain on the property an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof except as expressly hereinafter permitted in this chapter, and the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof, on private or public property not including highways, except as expressly hereinafter permitted, is declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(1994 Code, § 10.16.010) Penalty, see § 10.99