(a) No person in charge or control of any property within the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, unlicensed, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle to remain on such property longer than seven days, except that this section shall not apply with regard to a vehicle lawfully in an enclosed building, a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated on a lawful place and manner when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, or a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the City.
(Ord. 65-15. Passed 4-19-1965.)
(b) In addition to the penalty provided in division (c) hereof, the Chief of Police or any member of the Police Division designated by him or her is hereby authorized to remove or have removed by a private towing agency any vehicle left at any place within the City which reasonably appears to be in violation of this section or lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4513.61 et seq.
(Ord. 67-39. Passed 5-1-1967.)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor, and shall also be assessed any costs incurred by the Municipality in disposing of such junk motor vehicle, less any money accruing to the Municipality from such disposal.