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502.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ABANDONED VEHICLE. A vehicle, as defined herein, that has remained for a period of more than four hours on public property illegally or lacking vital component parts or has remained for a period of more than four hours on private property without consent of the person in control of the property or in an inoperable condition that it has no substantial, potential further use consistent with its usual functions, unless it is kept in an enclosed garage or storage building. It shall include a vehicle which is in a wrecked, junked or partially dismantled condition. It shall also mean a motor vehicle voluntarily surrendered by its owner to the city or a vehicle offered for sale by its owner parked on public property.
   CLASSIC OR PIONEER CAR. As defined in M.S. § 168.10, a classic or pioneer car shall not be considered an abandoned vehicle.
   VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(1987 Code, § 503.02) (Ord. 72, passed 6-4-1973; Ord. 218, passed 7-24-1989)
502.03 NUISANCE DECLARED.
   The City Council has determined that abandoned, wrecked, junked, partially dismantled or inoperative vehicles within the city create a public nuisance tending to reduce the value of private property, invite plundering, create fire hazards, attract vermin and constitute a threat to the health and safety of the public. The accumulation and outside storage of the vehicles, in the nature of rubbish, litter and unsightly debris, is a detriment to the environment and is declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated as provided herein or as provided under any other ordinance of the city or law of the State of Minnesota.
(1987 Code, § 503.03)
502.04 ABANDONMENT OF VEHICLES.
   No person shall park, store or leave, or permit the parking, storing or leaving of any abandoned vehicle on public or private property within the city unless:
Subd. 1.   Within a building;
Subd. 2.   The vehicle is stored or parked on private property in connection with a duly licensed or authorized commercial enterprise operated and conducted pursuant to law when the parking or storing of vehicles is necessary to the operation of the commercial enterprise; or
Subd. 3.   The vehicle is stored or parked on private property of the owner thereof, or a member of his or her family, for the purpose of making repairs thereto; provided, that the repair period is not to exceed 30 days, after which time the vehicle shall be deemed to be abandoned.
(1987 Code, § 503.04)
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