This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority granted the
Town of Mount Morris in § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule
Law and in § 130(15) of the Town Law.
This chapter shall be known as the "Town of Mount Morris Junk
Storage Law."
By adoption of this chapter the Town of Mount Morris declares
its intent to regulate and control the storage or keeping of junk
and to regulate junkyards whether operated for commercial profit or
otherwise. The Town Board hereby declares that a clean, wholesome
and attractive environment is of vital importance to the continued
general welfare of its citizens and that junk and junkyards can constitute
a hazard to property and persons and can be a public nuisance. Such
materials may be highly flammable and sometimes explosive. Junk and
particularly junked vehicles can constitute attractive nuisances to
children and certain adults. The presence of junk and junkyards is
unsightly and tends to detract from the value of surrounding properties
unless properly screened from view.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this chapter:
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any person appointed by the Town Board to represent them
in particular matters pertaining to this chapter.
JUNK
The outdoor storage or deposit of any of the following shall
constitute junk:
A.
Two or more junk motor vehicles.
B.
One or more junk mobile homes.
C.
Two or more abandoned or inoperable appliances, including but
not limited to washers, dryers, dishwashers, stoves, refrigerators,
freezers and televisions.
D.
Two or more abandoned or irreparably damaged pieces of indoor
furniture, including but not limited to sofas, lounge chairs, mattresses,
bed frames, desks, tables, chairs and chests of drawers.
E.
Any combination of the above or parts of the above that total
two or more items.
JUNK MOBILE HOME
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, built
on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling unit,
which is currently not inhabited and is no longer habitable under
New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Includes
but is not limited to mobile homes, travel trailers and campers.
JUNK STORAGE AREA
The areas of any parcel of land or water used or intended
to be used for the placement, storage or deposit of junk.
JUNK VEHICLES
Two or more unregistered, old, secondhand motor vehicles,
no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways,
or used parts or waste materials from motor vehicles which, taken
together, equal in bulk two or more such vehicles. A vehicle is considered
junked when it meets all of the following conditions:
B.
It is either abandoned, wrecked, stored, discarded, dismantled
or partly dismantled.
C.
It is not in any condition for legal use upon the public highways.
D.
It is in such condition as to cost more to repair to operating
condition than its reasonable market value at the time before such
repair.
JUNKYARD
The outdoor storage or deposit of any of the following:
A.
Five or more junk motor vehicles.
B.
Two or more junk mobile homes.
No person, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited
liability company, landowner, tenant or other entity shall store or
cause to be stored any junk, junk mobile homes, junk vehicles or maintain
any junk storage area or junkyard on any lands within the Town of
Mount Morris.