(A) No person, firm or corporation shall park or store or permit to be parked or stored upon any premises within Silver Creek Township any vehicle, including any conveyance, boat, aircraft, or new or used parts therefrom, unless one or more of the following conditions exist:
(1) Such parking or storage is located within a fully-enclosed building;
(2) A special permit is first obtained therefor for a period of not to exceed 45 days from the Supervisor of Silver Creek Township or such other officer or official as the Township Board may designate to be granted only in special hardship cases beyond the control of the applicant, where special or peculiar circumstances exist, where no adjoining property owner is adversely affected thereby and where the spirit and purpose of these regulations are still observed;
(3) Such vehicle or conveyance is licensed or registered by the State of Michigan, is an operable vehicle or conveyance, has all of its main component parts attached, as hereinafter defined, has a proper and valid license plate displayed upon it, and is, in fact, regularly operated for its designed purpose;
(4) Such vehicle(s), boats, trailers, cargo containers, railcars, railroad cars, semitruck trailer, boxcar, truck box, aircraft or conveyances are located in a duly licensed and properly zoned junkyard, salvage yard, new or used car dealer's lot, automobile repair facility or storage yard where such uses or operations are legally authorized under the township zoning ordinance;
(5) Such vehicle or vehicles are awaiting repairs or delivery to owners at an authorized service station, garage, paint shop, or body shop registered with the State of Michigan pursuant to 1974 PA 300, as amended, provided such vehicle or vehicles are locked, licensed by the State of Michigan, and are not a public nuisance; and
(6) Such vehicle, boat, trailer, aircraft or conveyance, although temporarily inoperable because of minor mechanical failure, has substantially all of its main component parts attached as hereinafter defined; is, where subject to a license or registration, licensed or registered by the State of Michigan; is not in any manner a dismantled vehicle; and the premises do not contain any such vehicle, boat, aircraft, trailer or conveyance for longer than 14 days in any one calendar year.
(B) No repairing, redesigning, modifying or dismantling work or operations shall be allowed upon any vehicle, boat, trailer, aircraft, cargo container, rail car, railroad car, box car, semi-truck trailer, truck box or conveyance or parts thereof upon any public right-of-way or public property (except for emergency minor repairs not exceeding one hour in duration) or upon any property not zoned for such purpose except such occasional minor work by the owner thereof as may infrequently be required to maintain the same in normal operating condition and as shall be accomplished within fully enclosed buildings; will not constitute a nuisance or annoyance to adjoining property owners or occupants; and does not violate any provisions of the Silver Creek Township Zoning Ordinance.
(C) The outdoor storage or placement of railroad cars, boxcars, cargo containers, land/sea/air containers and/or railcars, either with or without wheels attached, on any property which is not operated as a bona fide railroad in accordance with Michigan Public Act 354 of 1993, as amended, or a commercial or industrial storage yard authorized under the township zoning ordinance constitutes a violation of this subchapter.
(D) The foregoing shall not be construed to prohibit the storage of farm machinery, vehicles, equipment and material used for agricultural purposes upon an operating farm of not less than 20 acres. Farm equipment not in use but stored for parts shall be stored in an area totally obscured from adjacent premises and roads.
(E) Trailers, campers, mobile house trailers, semi-truck trailers, campers and other conveyances may be parked or stored upon premises in Silver Creek Township so long as the same are: (1) licensed; (2) operable; and (3) regularly used for their intended purposes. No conveyance, trailer, camper, unoccupied mobile home, mobile house trailer, or semi-truck trailer shall be parked, placed or stored upon premises within Silver Creek Township for use as a storage building or unit; nor shall any of the above be permitted to be utilized as a residential unit upon real property premises without principal permitted use within Silver Creek Township (see division (A)(6) above).
(Ord. 21-04, passed 7-14-2021)