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For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTOMOBILE COLLECTOR. A person who collects and restores motor vehicles.
(KRS 65.8840(1)(b))
AUTOMOBILE PARTS. Any portion or parts of any motor-driven vehicle as detached from the vehicle as a whole.
IMMINENT DANGER. A condition which is likely to cause serious or life-threatening injury or death at any time.
(KRS 65.8840(1)(e))
INOPERATIVE CONDITION. Unable to move under its own power due to defective or missing parts, and which has remained in that condition for a period of not less than ten consecutive days.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any style or type of motor-driven vehicle used for the conveyance of persons or property.
ORDINARY PUBLIC VIEW. A sight line within normal visual range by a person on a public street or sidewalk adjacent to real property.
(KRS 65.8840(1)(h))
PARTS CAR. An automobile that is not intended to be operated along streets and roads, but is used to provide parts for the restoration of other automobiles.
(KRS 65.8840(1)(j))
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Any act, thing, occupation, condition or use of property which shall continue for a length of time as to:
(1) Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort, health, repose or safety of the public;
(2) Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage; or
(3) Essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property or tend to depreciate the value of property of others.
SCRAP METAL. Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or any other material, whether intact or in parts, which has served its usefulness in its original form and can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose.
UNFIT FOR FURTHER USE. In a dangerous condition, having defective or missing parts or in a condition generally as to be unfit for further use as a conveyance.
In addition to what is declared in this chapter to be a public nuisance, those offenses which are known to the common law and statutes of the commonwealth as public nuisances may be treated as such and be proceeded against as is provided in this chapter or in accordance with any other provision of law.
Penalty, see § 92.99
(A) It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon.
(B) The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(1) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of, or cause hurt, damage or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof;
(2) Accumulation of rubbish. An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another;
(3) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity;
(4) Weeds and grass. The excessive growth of weeds, grass or other vegetation. Unless otherwise provided, EXCESSIVE shall mean growth to a height of 12 inches or more;
(5) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place;
(6) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery which in any way interfere with the use, construction or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, cause injury to streets or sidewalks or constitute an obstruction to drainage;
(7) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal’s pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors; and
(8) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts or scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for those purposes.
Penalty, see § 92.99
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