The provisions of §§ 342.40 and 175.25, Wis.
Stats., and the definitions therein, are adopted by reference.
For the purposes of this chapter, a junked, stored, or abandoned
vehicle means any self-propelled land vehicle which can be used for
towing or transporting people or materials, or parts thereof, including
but not limited to automobiles, trucks, buses, motorized campers,
motorcycles, motor scooters, mopeds, tractors, snowmobiles and trailers
of all types, in a disassembled, dismantled, junked, wrecked or inoperable
condition, on any real estate located within the corporate limits
of the Village, except upon a permit issued by the Village Board.
No person, firm, partnership or corporation shall leave unattended
any junked, stored or abandoned vehicle for such time and under such
circumstances as to cause the vehicle to reasonably appear to have
been abandoned. No person shall store any such junked or abandoned
vehicle on public or private property within the Village of East Troy
for longer than 10 days without making application to the Village
Board for a permit herein described. A motor vehicle shall not be
considered an abandoned motor vehicle when it is out of ordinary public
view or when designated as not abandoned by a duly authorized municipal
official or when designated as not abandoned pursuant to a permit
issued hereunder.
The owner of any abandoned, junked or stored motor vehicle for
which no permit has been issued by the Village Board, except a stolen
vehicle, is responsible for all costs of impounding and disposing
of the vehicle. Costs not recovered from the sale of the vehicle may
be recovered in a civil action by the Village against the owner.