As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
INOPERABLE VEHICLE, INOPERATIVE AUTOMOBILE and INOPERATIVE AUTOMOBILE
BODY
An automobile, motor vehicle or other vehicle, subject to
the scope of Title 39 of the New Jersey Statutes, of any type which
is unregistered or any such vehicle, whether registered or not, that
is in an inoperable condition or unfit for use on any public highway,
standing or stored anywhere outdoors in the Township of Moorestown
("township").
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership or corporation being the
owner or having any legal rights in or to the vehicle or automobile
as herein defined.
No person shall abandon, keep, store, locate,
suffer or permit the keeping, abandonment, storage or location of
any inoperable vehicle or vehicles outdoors upon any public or private
lands in the Township, including any public street. A vehicle shall
be deemed to be stored if it has been continually on a property for
a time period of at least 30 days. Nothing herein shall be deemed
to prohibit the keeping or storage of a motor vehicle, whether operable
or inoperable, entirely within an enclosed garage, barn or other fully
enclosed building.
If any inoperable vehicle or vehicles shall be abandoned, kept, located or stored on private lands in the Township, it shall be presumed that the owner and any tenant in possession of said land or property has abandoned, kept, located or stored the vehicle upon the subject property or permitted or suffered it to be abandoned, kept, located or stored on said property, and the owner and such tenant of said property shall be responsible for the violation in accordance with §
169-2.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply
to automobile repair shops or motor vehicle service stations to the
extent that these uses are permitted by the Zoning Ordinance of the
Township.
[Amended 3-20-2006 by Ord. No. 5-2006]
B. In the event of civil enforcement hereof by the Township
or by any other person, every violator of this chapter may be required
to remove the vehicle abandoned, kept, stored or located in violation
hereof and to pay all costs and expenses of such removal.