Nuisance vehicles, or parts thereof, constitute a hazard to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the city, in that such vehicles can harbor noxious diseases, furnish shelter and breeding places for vermin, rodents, and undesirable insects, compound the enforcement for controlling the existence and spread of noxious weeds, and present physical danger to the safety and well-being of children and other citizens. Nuisance vehicles, or part thereof, also constitute a blight on the landscape of the city and therefor are a detriment to the environment. It is therefor, to the public interest and in the interests of personal protection and property protection, that the presently placed, parked, stored, accumulated, deposited, and stockpiled situation of abandoned, partially dismantled, derelict, junked, or currently unlicensed vehicles, or parts thereof, be eliminated, and that future accumulating, placing, parking, storing, depositing, or stockpiling of such vehicles be prohibited, and that other acceptable, alternate, and economically useful methods for such vehicles be encouraged by owners or possessors thereof.
(Ord. 514, passed 3-6-2017)