[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Haddon 9-3-1968 by Ord. No. 535. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is hereby determined and declared that the placing, abandonment,
leaving, parking, storing or maintaining of any unregistered, unlicensed,
disabled, dismantled or inoperable motor vehicles, boats, machinery or mechanical
equipment out of doors on private lands in the Township of Haddon is contrary,
inimical and detrimental to the public welfare in that such articles so placed,
abandoned, left, parked, stored or maintained attract or may attract persons
of tender years who, being so attracted, may play in and about the same and
be injured, and in that such articles so placed, abandoned, parked, stored
or maintained out of doors, exposed to the elements, deteriorate and in themselves
are unsightly and, deteriorating, become more unsightly and tend to attract
vermin and rodents and by reason thereof depreciate the value of properties
in the neighborhood where they are located and in the Township as a whole,
thereby creating health, fire and sanitary hazards, all of which is contrary
and inimical to the public welfare.
[Added 5-17-1988 by Ord.
No. 849]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any motor vehicle, boat, machinery or mechanical equipment which
is missing tires, wheels, an engine or any essential parts; which displays
extensive body damage or deterioration; which does not display a current,
valid state license; or which is wrecked, disassembled or partially disassembled.
No person or corporation shall place, abandon, leave, keep, park or maintain, or permit or suffer the placing, abandoning, leaving, keeping, parking, or maintaining of, any articles described in § 221-1 of this chapter out of doors upon any private land in the Township of Haddon for more than 10 days unless the same is garaged or stored in an enclosed building.
[Added 5-17-1988 by Ord.
No. 849]
It shall be unlawful for any residential property owner to park or permit
the parking of any vehicle on his or her residential lawn.
If any vehicle, boat, machinery or mechanical equipment or other article described in § 221-1 shall be placed, abandoned, left, kept, parked or maintained on private lands for 10 days or more, it shall be presumed that the owner or tenant in possession of said lands, or both, left, placed, kept, stored, parked or maintained the same there, or permitted or suffered it to be so left, placed, kept, stored, parked or maintained upon such premises.
The Township may cause a notice to be served upon the owner or tenant
in possession of said lands on which the violation exists to abate the violation
by removing the vehicle, boat, machinery or mechanical equipment or other
articles constituting a violation of this chapter from the premises or storing
the same within an enclosed building within 10 days after service of such
notice, which may be served upon such owner or tenant, if he resides in the
Township, personally or by leaving it at his usual place of abode with some
member of his household over the age of 14 years; but if any such owner or
tenant shall reside out of the Township, such notice shall be served upon
him by certified mail addressed to him at his usual residence according to
the tax records of the Township of Haddon; and the said owner or tenant, or
other person, shall so abate the violation within the time fixed by the notice.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a fine of not more than $1,000
or imprisonment for a term of not more than 90 days, or both.
[Amended 4-7-1987 by Ord.
No. 819]
B.
Each day that any such person or corporation shall continue
to keep, maintain, park, store, place or abandon such vehicle, boat, machinery
or mechanical equipment or other article prohibited in this chapter upon such
premises after the time contained in the aforesaid notice shall expire shall
be deemed to be a separate offense and violation of this chapter.
