As used in this chapter:
MOTOR VEHICLE — Any vehicle propelled otherwise
than by muscular power, excepting such vehicles as run only upon rails
or tracks.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation.
It is hereby determined and declared that the placing, abandonment,
leaving, keeping or storage out of doors of any motor vehicle not
currently in use for transportation on public or private lands in
the borough is contrary and inimical to the public welfare in that
such motor vehicles so placed, abandoned, left, kept or stored attract
or may attract persons of tender years who, being so attracted, may
play in and about them and be injured in so doing, and in that such
motor vehicles so placed, abandoned, left, kept or stored out of doors,
exposed to the elements, deteriorate and in themselves are unsightly
and, deteriorating, become more unsightly and are detrimental to,
and depreciate, the value of properties in the neighborhood where
they are located and in the borough as a whole.
No person shall place, abandon, leave, keep or store, or suffer or permit the placing, abandoning, leaving, keeping or storage of, any motor vehicle described in Sections
98-1 and
98-2 of this chapter out of doors upon any public or private land in the borough or between the right-of-way side lines of any public thoroughfare therein. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the placing, keeping or storage of any such motor vehicle in an enclosed garage, barn or other building.
Whenever an investigation by the Police Department discloses that Section
98-3 and/or Section
98-4 of this chapter is being violated, and that the land on which the violation exists is privately owned, it shall, in writing, notify the owner of record or tenant in possession of the land on which the violation exists to abate the violation by removing the motor vehicle or motor vehicles constituting the violation from the borough or into an enclosed garage, barn or other building within 10 days of the service of the notice, which shall be served upon such owner or tenant, if he resides in the borough, personally or by leaving it at his usual place of abode with some member of his household over the age of 14 years; but if any such owner or tenant shall reside outside the borough, the notice shall be served upon him by registered or certified mail addressed to him at his usual residence if ascertainable, otherwise by notice published in the newspaper in which the legal notices of the borough may be published, and the said owner or tenant shall so abate the violation within the time fixed by the notice.
This chapter shall not apply to motor vehicles kept temporarily
in the operation of a business primarily conducted for the sale and
repair, or either, of motor vehicles.
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Unless otherwise provided by law, any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty as stated in Chapter I, Article II General Penalty, Section
1-5 et seq., in the discretion of the Judge.