[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Winslow 8-28-70 by Ord. No. 0-11-70 as
Ch. 71 of the 1970 Code of the Township of Winslow.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Junkyards — See Ch. 167.
[1]
Editor's Note: This legislation was originally adopted
3-29-68 as Ord. No. 0-4-68.
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the township 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 includes,
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the township, and
no person shall leave any vehicle at any place within the township
for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle
reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating,
wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the township.
[Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
[Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
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 township 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 provisions of N.J.S.A. 39: 10A-1 et seq.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined in an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.) or
be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety
(90) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned. Each day such violation
is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
