(a) No person shall park, store or permit to be parked or stored, an unlicensed motor vehicle or any part or parts thereof upon any lot or land other than that of a junk dealer or licensed automobile dealer, unless it is in a completely enclosed building or garage. Designated employees of the Engineering, Planning, and Building Department or the Health Department are authorized and directed to serve notice on property owners or persons in possession of any such lot or land upon which an unlicensed motor vehicle or any part or parts thereof are parked or stored.
A period of three days or seventy-two hours excluding weekends and holidays shall commence to run following the service of such notice. No person, who is the owner or in charge or possession of such lot or land on which such unlicensed motor vehicle, or part or parts thereof, is parked or stored outside, shall fail to remove or correct same after notice as aforesaid. In addition to any other penalty provided by law such vehicle may be impounded in accordance with the procedure established by Section 303.08 et seq., and herein.
(b) No person shall park, store or permit to be parked or stored upon any lot or land, other than that of a junk dealer or licensed automobile dealer, any licensed or unlicensed motor vehicle which is incapable of being operated in a reasonably safe and continuous manner on the public streets and highways, or any junked or abandoned vehicle which presents a health or a safety hazard, unless it is in a completely enclosed building or garage. Designated employees of the Engineering, Planning and Building Department or the Health Department are authorized and directed to serve notice on the property owners or persons in possession of any such lot or land upon which such a motor vehicle is parked or stored.
Such period of three days or seventy-two hours shall commence to run following the service of such notice. No person who is the owner or in charge or possession of such lot or land on which such inoperable motor vehicle is parked or stored outside, shall fail to remove or correct same after notice as aforesaid. In addition to any other penalty provided by law such vehicle may be impounded in accordance with the procedure established by Section 303.08 et seq., and herein.
(c) The Engineering, Planning and Building Department or the Health Department is authorized to provide for the removal of a motor vehicle in violation of this section at the expiration of the notice period and that no notice of appeal having been filed. Any person receiving notice under this section is to be provided with an appeals process through the department issuing said notice.
(d) The release, redemption and disposition of vehicles ordered into impound under this section, shall be in accordance with the procedures outlined in Section 303.08 et seq., and Ohio law.
(Ord. 10799/95. Passed 6-14-95.)
(Ord. 10799/95. Passed 6-14-95.)
(e) In addition to any other fees, expenses, fines, penalties or costs resulting from the impoundment of a motor vehicle under this section, the owner(s) of a motor vehicle impounded under this section shall pay at the Health Department an administrative fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) therefor within five (5) days after the day the motor vehicle is removed and impounded. Such fee shall be paid before, and as a condition of, any release of the motor vehicle from impoundment. Such fee, however, shall be paid regardless of whether or not the motor vehicle is ever redeemed from impoundment.
(Ord. 11508/01. Passed 11-14-01.)