This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Lancaster
Township Abandoned and Junked Motor Vehicle Ordinance."
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the following meanings, except where the context or language
clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ABANDONED OR JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle (whether automobile, bus, truck, semitractor,
trailer, mobile home, motorcycle or any other vehicle originally intended
to be used on public highways) which is abandoned, stored, left outside,
or located outside of a private garage; or is permitted or condoned
to be abandoned, stored, left outside, or located outside of a private
garage; and which meets at least one of the following conditions:
A.
Is currently unregistered with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
or any other state, and has not been so registered within the past
year; or
B.
Is currently without a valid inspection sticker issued by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any other state, and has not possessed
such a sticker within the past year; or
C.
Is not operable or is not in condition for legal use on a public
highway.
PERSON
Includes any individual person or persons, firm, partnership,
corporation, company, whether business, membership, religious, charitable,
or otherwise, and any association, club, society, or other unit, organization
or entity of any kind.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Lancaster, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store or accumulate abandoned
or junked motor vehicles, or to permit or condone abandoned or junked
motor vehicles to be stored or accumulated, on public or private property
within the Township.
[Amended 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 conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
This chapter is intended to supplement existing ordinances in
regulating activities or conditions hereby classified as nuisances.
As such, this chapter does not repeal or amend any prior enacted ordinance
nor does this chapter limit the enforcement of any prior enacted ordinance.
If a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction holds
any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or part of this
chapter to be illegal or unconstitutional, such determination shall
not affect or impair any of the remaining sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or parts of this chapter, which shall remain in
full force and effect. It is hereby declared as the intent of the
Township that the sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases,
or parts of this chapter shall be severable and that this chapter
would have been adopted if any such illegal or unconstitutional section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or parts had not been included.