(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) "Property" means any real property within the City which is not a street, right-of- way or highway.
(2) " Street or highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(3) "Vehicle" means a machine propelled by power other than human, designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and to transport persons or property, or pull machinery, and includes, without limitation, automobiles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, tractors, motor scooters and the like.
(4) "Vehicle parts" mean any portion of a vehicle or part thereof.
(5) "Enclosure" means a structure having solid, opaque walls on all sides, serving to completely shield from view, articles stored therein from any point on any public street or right-of-way and from any point on nearby, adjacent or contiguous property of ownership other than that on which the enclosure is located.
(6) "Abandoned vehicle" means any vehicle left, parked or discarded at any place within the City for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(Ord. 912. Passed 6-15-72.)
(7) "Nonoperating vehicle" means any vehicle not bearing current, valid, State license plates. Any vehicle partly disassembled and incapable of satisfaction of State standards of safe operation and incapable of moving under its own power, whether bearing current, valid, State license plates or not, shall be regarded as a nonoperating vehicle. Any vehicle not moved within thirty days shall be presumed to be incapable of moving under its own powers.
(Ord. 18-82. Passed 7-1-82.)
(8) "Abandoned junk motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle meeting all of the following requirements:
A. Left on private property for more than seventy-two hours without permission from the person having possession of the property, 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 street, road or highway, for forty-eight hours or longer;
B. Three years old or older;
C. Extensively damaged, such damage including but not limited to any of the following: a broken window or windshield, missing wheels, tires, motor or transmission;
D. Apparently inoperable; and
E. Having a fair market value of two hundred dollars ($200.00) or less.
(b) Storage on Property Other than Streets or Highways. No person shall store, keep or allow to remain on property within the City any nonoperating vehicle or vehicle parts not within an enclosure.
(c) Storage on Streets or Highways. No person shall place, leave, store or abandon any nonoperating vehicle, vehicle part or junk motor vehicle on any street, highway or right-of-way within the City.
(d) Disposition of Vehicles. Disposition of unlawfully stored or abandoned vehicles shall be in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4513.61 and 4513.62.
(e) Removal of Vehicles. Five days after notification of violation, mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, or delivered to the person in possession of property upon which a nonoperating vehicle, vehicle parts, etc., are unlawfully stored, the City shall enter such property and remove such nonoperating vehicle, vehicle parts, etc. and dispose of the same at the City's discretion and shall certify any expense connected with such disposal to the Butler County Auditor as a lien against the property.
(Ord. 912. Passed 6-15-72.)
(f) Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues after notification of such violation.