[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Tinicum 9-30-1980 by Ord. No. 542. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any such vehicle on which its engine, motor or any other
essential part is inoperable or has been removed or which bears no
current inspection sticker or which bears no current official registration
plate.
Any vehicle parked contrary to any ordinance of the Township
of Tinicum or contrary to any provision of the Pennsylvania Motor
Vehicle Code.[1]
A natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
It shall be unlawful for any person or owner
or occupier of property in the Township of Tinicum to place, store
or deposit or permit to be placed, stored or deposited any abandoned
or junked vehicle or parts thereof on any public or private property
in the Township of Tinicum, whether vacant or occupied, or upon any
public street, highway, lane or alley within the Township of Tinicum.
Whenever it is found that any person or any
owner or occupier of property in the Township of Tinicum places, stores
or deposits or permits to be placed, stored or deposited any abandoned
or junked vehicle on any public or private property, the Police Department
of the Township of Tinicum shall serve notice upon said person, owner
or occupier requiring him to remove said abandoned or junked vehicle
within five days of receipt of said notice. It shall be sufficient
notice to notify the person, owner or occupier by certified mail or
to place an appropriate notice upon the vehicle.
Whenever any said person, owner or occupier
fails to remove said abandoned or junked vehicle after said notice,
the Township of Tinicum Police Department may remove said vehicle,
place said vehicle in storage and hold said vehicle until the costs
of storage and expenses for moving said vehicle are paid in full and
until any fines and costs have been paid.
Whenever any abandoned or junked vehicle is
placed on any public street, highway, lane or alley within the Township
of Tinicum, the Police Department of the Township of Tinicum shall
place a notice upon said vehicle, in a conspicuous place, to remove
said vehicle within 48 hours.
Whenever the owner or person who placed said vehicle on any public street, highway, lane or alley, as set forth in § 358-5, fails to remove said vehicle within said 48 hours, the Township of Tinicum Police Department may remove said vehicle, place said vehicle in storage and hold said vehicle until the costs of storage and expenses for moving said vehicle are paid in full and until any fines and costs have been paid.
It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle illegally,
or any public street, highway, lane or alley, which poses an immediate
danger to the safety and welfare of the traveling public and the residents
of the Township of Tinicum.
Whenever any illegally parked vehicle is parked
in such a manner as to pose an immediate danger to the safety and
welfare of the traveling public and the residents of the Township
of Tinicum, the Police Department of the Township of Tinicum may remove
said vehicle, place said vehicle in storage and hold said vehicle
until the costs of storage and expenses for moving said vehicle are
paid in full and until any fines and costs have been paid.
Any person who violates any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof before a Magisterial District
Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than
$600, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not
exceeding 30 days. Each day that a person shall be in violation of
this chapter shall constitute a separate offense.
