[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Milford 4-7-1969 by Ord. No. 181, approved 5-5-1969 (Ch.
101 of the 1979 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any vehicle which is found unattended without the current
years' registration plates or inspection sticker as required
by law and/or any vehicle as to which any of the following conditions
exist:
[Added 6-18-1979 by Ord.
No. 222]
It has been so damaged by collision, accident
or any other means that it is inoperable for the purpose for which
it was intended.
It does not have all of its material parts, including
but not limited to four tires and wheels, required headlights and
taillamps, windshield radiator, transmission, engine, windows and
doors.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Borough 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 to transport persons or property or pull machinery and shall include,
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon.
[Amended 6-18-1979 by Ord. No. 222]
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the Borough and no
person shall leave any vehicle at any place within the Borough for
such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably
to appear to have been abandoned.
[Amended 6-18-1979 by Ord. No. 222]
A.
No person in charge or control of any property within the
Borough, 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 Borough for a longer time than 48 hours; 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
enterprise; or a vehicle in an appropriate storage place of depository
maintained in a lawful place and manned by the Borough. This section
shall not apply to abandoned vehicles as defined in and regulated
by the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
B.
No vehicle may placed or permitted to remain on the premises
of a business enterprise, pursuant to this section, for more than
six months in any one-year period.
[Added 11-6-1989 by Ord.
No. 268]
The Chief of Police, or any member of his Department designated
by him, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle
left at any place within the Borough which reasonably appears to be
in violation of this chapter or lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle
shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance
with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in such case made
and provided.
[Amended 6-18-1979 by Ord. No. 222; 11-7-1988 by Ord. No. 264; at time of adoption of
Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
shall, upon being found liable therefor, pay a fine of not more than
$600, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred
by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings. If the penalty is not
paid, the Borough shall initiate a civil action for collection in
accordance with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Each day
a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and each section
of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate
offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under this section,
the Borough may enforce this chapter in equity in the Court of Common
Pleas of Pike County.
