The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this article:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the City which is not a street or
highway.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed
to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides
and transport persons or property, or pull machinery, and shall include,
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the City and no person
shall leave any vehicle at any place within the City for such time
and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to
appear to have been abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating,
wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the City.
No person in charge or control of any property within the City,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow
any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded
vehicle to remain on such property longer than 48 hours, and no person
shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the City for a
longer time than 48 hours, except that this section shall not apply
with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed building, a vehicle on the
premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner,
when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, or a
vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in
a lawful place and manner by the City.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order
No. 2020-012]
The Chief of Police, Commissioner of Public Works or other appropriate
official or any member of his department designated by him is authorized
to remove or have removed any vehicle left at any place within the
City which reasonably appears to be in violation of this article or
lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded, and if
not lawfully claimed or disposed of by the lawful owner within 48
hours it shall be hauled off to a junkyard and disposed of forthwith.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order
No. 2020-012]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined $50. Each day such violation
is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
