The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this article:
1. PERSON – Shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association,
corporation, company or organization of any kind.
2. VEHICLE – Shall mean 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 shall include, without limitation, automobiles, trucks,
trailers, motorcycles and tractors.
3. STREET OR HIGHWAY – Shall mean 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.
4. JUNK MOTOR VEHICLE – Shall mean any motor vehicle, as defined
herein, which is wrecked, dismantled, inoperative, abandoned, or discarded.
5. PRIVATE PROPERTY – Shall mean any real property which is not
public property.
6. PUBLIC PROPERTY – Shall mean that property which is dedicated
to the public use and over which the Federal, State, or Municipal
governments or any political subdivision thereof exercises control
and dominion.
Any car, truck or other vehicle parked, left or abandoned in
violation of the provisions of this article shall be removed from
the place the same is illegally parked, left or abandoned, to an appropriate
place to be stored until claimed by owner or person having possession
thereof; that a charge shall be made, as authorized by state statutes,
for the removal of such car, truck or other vehicle and an additional
actual charge per day for storage until such time as all costs of
removal and storage have been paid.
Whenever it comes to the attention of the city Building Official,
or his designee, that any nuisance, as defined by this article exists
in the city, a notice in writing shall be served upon the occupant
of the land where the nuisance exists, or in case there is no such
occupant, then upon the owner of the property or his agent, notifying
them of the existence of the nuisance and requesting its removal in
the time specified in this article.
[Amended 2-28-1991, Ordinance
1991-4]
Upon proper notice and opportunity to be heard, the owner of
the abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle and the
owner or occupant of the private property on which the same is located,
either or all of them, shall be responsible therefor.