The words contained in this chapter are defined as follows:
HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND EQUIPMENT: All articles usually referred to as household goods and articles used in housekeeping including, but not limited to, chairs, tables, davenports, beds, refrigerators, stoves, washers, driers, furnaces, appliances, grease, oil, paint and their containers.
MACHINERY: All articles of industrial, farm or domestic machinery or equipment, any and all metal or wooden machinery, motors, equipment, tools or property.
MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY: All other property including, but not limited to, old rope, iron, brass, copper, tin, lead, rubber, rags, baggage, bottles, scrap, toys, bicycles or boats.
MOTOR VEHICLES: Any vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power designed to travel on the ground by wheels, treads, runners or slides and to transport persons or property or pull machinery including, but not limited to, automobiles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, tractors, buggies or wagons.
PERSON: Any individual, corporation or partnership. (1958 Code ch. VII art. 9)
(A) No person shall place, allow, discard, maintain, park or store any dismantled, abandoned, nonoperating, junked, damaged or destroyed household goods or equipment, "motor vehicles", "machinery" or "miscellaneous property" as herein defined upon any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public property within the city. (1958 Code ch. VII art. 9)
(B) No person, whether he be owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise of any private property or premises shall place, allow, discard, maintain, park, store or permit to be placed, allowed, discarded, maintained, parked or stored upon said property or premises for a period of time exceeding forty eight (48) hours any dismantled, abandoned, nonoperating, junked, damaged or destroyed "household goods and equipment", "motor vehicles", "machinery" or "miscellaneous property" as herein defined; provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any property or premises where said household goods and equipment, motor vehicles, machinery or miscellaneous property is housed within an enclosed building thereon or to any property or premises lawfully operated as a business where the same is a part of said business enterprise and necessary to the operation of said business on said property or premises if kept within an area completely enclosed by a screening fence so that the property enclosed is not visible to the public or to neighboring property owners. (Ord. 2465, 11-7-1994)
(C) The city, through its employees, may issue warning notices for any violation of this section. If the violation is not corrected by the reinspection date set on the warning notice, a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) may be assessed for the first violation, two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the second violation, and three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the third and subsequent violations during the same calendar year. (Ord. 3047, 2-25-2013)
(D) In addition to the civil penalties enumerated in Paragraph (C), violation of this Section is a misdemeanor punishable by up to sixty (60) days in jail and/or a three hundred dollar ($300.00) fine. Economic costs incurred by the city or another party expended to bring the property into compliance with this section may be charge as restitution in the criminal case. (Ord. 2022-014, 8-1-2022)
Any property or goods upon public or private property within the city in violation hereof may be impounded and removed by the police department and sold at public or private auction by said police department as is provided in this code for the disposal of abandoned property. The cost of removal of said equipment shall be included in any fine imposed for violation of the provisions of this chapter. (1958 Code ch. VII art. 9)
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