It is hereby determined and declared that the abandonment or
storage outdoors of any inoperable motor vehicle or any motor vehicle
not currently licensed or registered, on any public street or on any
public or private lands within the Township is contrary and inimical
to the public welfare in that such vehicles so abandoned or stored
attract or may attract vermin and persons of tender years, who being
so attracted may play in or about them and be injured doing so, and
in that such vehicles so abandoned or stored outdoors deteriorate
and are unsightly and are detrimental to and depreciate the value
of properties in the neighborhood where they are located and in the
Township as a whole.
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
INOPERABLE
Any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck,
truck-trailer and vehicle that is not currently registered or licensed,
or which is not capable of being used or operated upon any public
street or highway, whether by reason of improper or inadequate equipment
or otherwise.
JUNK AUTOMOBILE or JUNK AUTOMOBILE BODY
Any automobile which is no longer in actual use as a motor
vehicle or which is wholly unfit, without rebuilding or reconditioning,
for use in highway transportation, or which has been discarded for
use as a motor vehicle or otherwise abandoned.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership or corporation being the
owner or having any legal right in, of or to the motor vehicle or
other vehicle as herein defined.
No person shall place, keep or store any junk automobile or
junk automobile body on any public or private property within the
Township, nor shall any person who owns any real property within the
Township allow any such automobile or body to remain on his land,
and failure to remove such automobile or body, after seven days' notice
to do so by the Police Department, shall constitute a violation of
this article.
The remedies and obligations set forth herein are in addition
to those established by N.J.S.A. 39:10A-1 et seq., N.J.S.A. 39:3-4,
N.J.S.A. 39:4-56.5 and any other applicable state statutes.
Unless otherwise provided, any person who violates any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not
exceeding $250, or by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days, or both,
at the discretion of the municipal judge, and each day that such violation
shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
A continuance of a violation of a noncompliance with the provisions
of this article shall be deemed a nuisance, and the Township Council
shall have the right to apply to the courts of this state for injunctive
relief or other relief in addition to the penalties provided for herein.