As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ABANDONMENT
A vehicle or chattel shall be considered abandoned if it
remains continuously upon unoccupied property for a period exceeding
24 hours unless it is upon such property in connection with a business
operation currently being conducted thereon and the vehicle or chattel
is under reasonable periodic supervision in connection with said business
operation, or a motor vehicle or part thereof is not currently licensed
for the current year and is not being used for transportation or cannot
be readily operated under its own power; provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the placing, keeping
or storing of any such motor vehicles in a closed garage or other
type of closed building.
CHATTEL
Includes vehicles, iceboxes, refrigerators, sinks, stoves,
tanks, plumbing fixtures, machinery, appliances and articles or objects
of a similar nature.
JUNK MOTOR VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which is missing
tires, wheels, engines or any essential parts; which displays extensive
body damage or deterioration; which does not display a current, valid
state license; or which is wrecked, disassembled or partially disassembled.
[Added 3-2-1989 by Ord.
No. 89-4]
VEHICLES
Includes every device in, upon or by which a person or property
is or may be transported, excepting a device used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
[Amended 3-2-1989 by Ord.
No. 89-4; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1,
General Provisions, Art. I)]
By virtue of the authority created in it by N.J.S.A. 26:3-45
and 40:48-2.13 et seq. and other appropriate statutes in such case
made and provided, the Township Committee of the Township of West
Deptford hereby declares that:
A. Abandonment prohibited. The abandonment of any vehicles, iceboxes,
refrigerators, sinks, stoves, tanks, plumbing fixtures, machinery,
appliances and articles or other chattels of a similar nature as described
herein upon private or public property in the Township of West Deptford
is a nuisance and inimical to the public health, safety and general
welfare in that children or other persons in the vicinity of said
abandoned vehicles or chattels may meet with serious injury therefrom
or be affected so far as health is concerned from the conditions of
said vehicles and/or chattels from a health point of view.
B. Storage prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or
permit the keeping on streets or vacant lots, except in a fully enclosed
structure, any junk motor vehicle.
[Amended 7-2-1981 by Ord.
No. 81-17]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the general penalty provisions of §
1-15 of Chapter
1, General Provisions, of this Code.