[Added 3-21-1972 by Ord.
No. 218; amended 8-21-1973 by Ord. No. 224; 12-21-1993 by Ord. No. 360; 7-17-2001 by Ord. No. 443]
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this article:
Any vehicle left on any street or alley within the Village
limits for a period of not less than seven days under such circumstances
as would lead a reasonable person to believe that the owner or bailee
thereof no longer exercises dominion over the vehicle.
Any motor vehicle, and any part thereof, from which, for a period
of at least 30 days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed,
or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged,
or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven
under its own motor power.
"Inoperable motor vehicle" shall not include a motor vehicle
which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under
its own power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations
nor to any motor vehicles that are kept within a building when not
in use, or to a motor vehicle on the premises of a place of business
engaged in wrecking or junking of motor vehicles licensed by the Village.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Village of Granville 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, an automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon and any part thereof.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the Village and no
person shall leave any vehicle at any place within the Village for
such time and under such circumstances as to cause the vehicle reasonably
to appear to have been abandoned. A vehicle licensed by the State
of Illinois with current license plates shall not be deemed abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating,
wrecked or junked vehicle on any street, alley or highway within the
Village.
No person in charge or control of any property within the Village,
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 six days; and no person
shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the Village for
a longer time than 10 days; except that this section shall not apply
with regard to a vehicle in any enclosed building in an appropriate
storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner
by the Village.
Inoperable motor vehicles, as defined herein, whether on public
or private property, are hereby declared to be a nuisance.
All persons are required to dispose of any inoperable motor
vehicles under their control upon written notice received from the
Chief of Police or any member of his department designated by him
commanding such disposition of said inoperable motor vehicle.
The Chief of Police, or any police officer of the Village designated
by him, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle
left at any place within the Village which reasonably appears to be
in violation of this article or lost, stolen or unclaimed, only after
one written warning has been given by any officer of the Village Police
Department. Such vehicles shall be impounded until lawfully claimed
or disposed of in accordance with 625 ILCS 5/4-201 through 5/4-214.
