(a) (1) No person shall willfully leave an abandoned junk motor vehicle, as defined in R.C. § 4513.63, on private property for more than 72 hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, or on a public street or other property open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, or upon or within the right-of-way of any road or highway for 48 hours or longer without notification to the chief of a law enforcement agency of the municipal corporation of the reason for leaving the motor vehicle in that place.
(2) For purposes of this division (g)(1), the fact that a motor vehicle has been so left without permission or notification is prima facie evidence of abandonment.
(3) Nothing contained in this section and R.C. §§ 4513.60, 4513.61 and 4513.63 shall invalidate or prevent the enactment of further provisions of municipal ordinances regulating or prohibiting the abandonment of motor vehicles on streets, highways, public property or private property within the municipality.
(b) Whoever violates this division (g) is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall also be assessed any costs incurred by the municipality in disposing of the abandoned junk motor vehicle, less any money accruing to the municipality from the disposal.
(R.C. § 4513.64)
(c) As used in this section, “abandoned junk motor vehicle” means any unlicensed and inoperable motor vehicle. For the purposes of this section, “unlicensed vehicle” means any motor vehicle that does not have current automobile registration tags prominently displayed upon it. For the purposes of this section, “inoperable motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle that cannot be driven or moved under its own power as a consequence of lacking wheels or tires, and engine, generator, battery, ignition system or other part or component part of such vehicle necessary to the starting, driving or moving of such vehicle under its own power.
For purposes of this section, a citation should not be issued for a motor vehicle which is parked on private property due to expired automobile registration.
(Ord. 00-22. Passed 4-6-00.)