This chapter is enacted in recognition of the fact that junk
cars abandoned or stored on private property can constitute both a
public and private nuisance. They are a source of potential hurt to
children and others who may find them an attractive nuisance. They
are replete with broken glass, sharp torn metal edges and points,
gasoline remaining in tanks of a highly explosive and combustible
nature and hurtful acid in batteries, to mention but a few of the
more obvious sources of potential physical hurt found on these junk
cars. Besides this, these junk cars constitute a blight on the Town's
landscape; they destroy the aesthetic qualities of the Town; and they
are generally otherwise unsightly. Their existence tends to depreciate
not only the property on which they are located but also the property
of other persons in the neighborhood and Town generally. They constitute
the Town a less safe and less pleasant place in which to live and
to do business. They hurt the welfare of the Town as a whole. The
intent of this chapter is to establish a legal procedure for the removal
of these junk cars where they are found in the Town outside duly licensed
establishments.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
JUNK CAR
Any motor vehicle, whether automobile, bus, truck, trailer,
tractor or any other contraption originally intended for travel on
public highways, which is abandoned, left or located by its owner
or any other person, or is permitted or condoned to be abandoned,
left or located by its owner or any other person, on private premises
in the Town of North East and outside any establishment duly licensed
by the Town, and which junk car is unregistered by the State of New
York or any other state and not operable. The use of the term in the
singular herein is intended, where applicable, to include the plural.
PERSON
Any individual, person or persons, firm, partnership or corporation,
whether business, membership, religious, charitable or otherwise,
or any association or other unit or entity owning real property in
the Town of North East.