The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates
that a different meaning is intended:
ABANDONED VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle which is found unattended without the current
year's registration or state inspection or identification markers,
as required by law, or has been continuously parked on any public
street, public land, or private property for a period of 20 days or
is so visually disabled as to be incapable of being operated under
its own power or is without one or more tires.
CITY
The City of Clairton.
HIGHWAY
Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic
is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to which
vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to
yield the right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience
to a stop sign, yield sign, or other official traffic-control device,
when such signs or devices are erected as provided by law.
JUNKED VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle which is no longer in actual use as a motor
vehicle or which is wholly unfit to be operated or has been discarded
for use or otherwise abandoned.
PERSON
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation,
or organization of any kind.
STREET
The entire width between boundary lines of every publicly
maintained right-of-way when any part thereof is open to the use of
the public for purposes of the vehicular travel.
VEHICLE
A vehicle which is self-propelled and shall include, without
limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle and tractor.
No person shall abandon for any length of time a motor vehicle
on any street, highway, alley, or other public way of this City.
No person shall abandon for any length of time a motor vehicle
on the private property of another person. Any resident of the City
on whose property a motor vehicle is abandoned may file a complaint
with the Police Department. Thereafter, the motor vehicle shall be
removed, impounded and subject to the same treatment as provided for
motor vehicles abandoned on the public ways.
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, discarded or abandoned
motor vehicle to remain on such property longer than seven days, except
that this chapter 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 enterprises; or a vehicle in a storage place or depository
maintained in a lawful location and manner by the City.
If a motor vehicle remains unclaimed after the expiration of 30 days from the date of impoundment, the City shall cause such vehicle to be disposed of in accordance with the procedures established under 75 Pa.C.S.A. Chapter
73 (relating to public sale of unclaimed vehicles).
It is the intention of the City Council that each separate provision
of this chapter shall be deemed independent of all other provisions
herein, and it is further the intention of the City Council that if
any provisions of this chapter be declared invalid or unconstitutional,
all other provisions hereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than
$100 and not more than $1,000 and/or to undergo imprisonment for a
term not to exceed 90 days; each day that a violation of this chapter
continues shall constitute a separate offense.