For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED VEHICLE. Any vehicle that is left unattended on any public street, alley, public place, or parking lot within the city for more than 48 hours without notifying the city or the Police Department, and making arrangements for the parking of such vehicles on public property, or that is left for more than 30 days on private property.
INOPERABLE/HAZARDOUS VEHICLE. Any vehicle which has not physically moved at least 25 feet in a two-month period due to damage, removal, or inoperability of the engine, tire(s), wheel(s), or other essential parts required for operation of the vehicle, or which does not have, lawfully affixed thereto, a valid state license plate, or which constitutes an immediate health, safety, fire, or traffic hazard.
JUNKED VEHICLES. Any vehicle which is substantially wrecked, dismantled, or in need of repairs equaling or exceeding 50% of the fair market value of the vehicle.
NUISANCE VEHICLE. Any abandoned, inoperable/hazardous, junked, or currently unlicensed VEHICLE as further defined herein this section.
OFFENDER.
(1) The owner and/or person(s) in possession of the nuisance vehicle or the parts thereof, whether or not the nuisance vehicle is located on public or private property.
(2) OFFENDER shall also mean the legal owner and/or occupant of any privately-owned real property where the nuisance vehicle is located when the offense was committed.
PERSONS. Any person or individual. It shall also mean any firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, group, or organization of any kind, and without regard to the purposes or objectives of formation or existence.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. Any real property within the city which is privately-owned and which is not PUBLIC PROPERTY, as defined in this section.
PUBLIC PROPERTY. Any street, alley, highway, or boulevard, which shall include the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained for the purpose of vehicular travel, or any other publicly-owned property or facility.
VEHICLE. Any machine, device implement, contrivance, apparatus, or automobile normally propelled by power, other than human power, designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners, skids, or slides and used to transport persons or property, to perform tasks, or to pull machinery, implements, contrivances, apparatus, automobiles, or other vehicles, and shall include, without limitation, automobiles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, tractors, machines, implements, snowmobiles, motor trucks and/or trailers, often referred to as semi-trailers, house trailers, trailer coaches, cabin trailers, mobile homes, recreation vehicles, vans, or combinations thereof, but not necessarily limited to such devices, machines, implement, contrivances, apparatus, or automobiles.
(Ord. 514, passed 3-6-2017)