It is hereby determined and declared that the abandonment or
storage out-of-doors of any motor vehicle not currently in use for
transportation and not currently licensed or registered on any public
streets or on any public or private lands within the borough is contrary
and inimical to the public welfare, in that such articles so abandoned
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 vehicles so abandoned 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.
[Added 8-26-1991 by Ord.
No. 1991-8]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ABANDON
Any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck,
truck-tractor and vehicle which:
A.
Is parked without the current year's registration or identification
markers as required by law; or
B.
Has been continuously parked in any public street or on any
public land for a period of 10 days, or on private land for a period
of 30 days, unless same is extended, for good cause, by the Police
Department.
[Amended 3-9-2015 by Ord.
No. 2015-02]
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.
VEHICLE
Wherever the term "vehicle" is used in this chapter it shall
also include boats, vessels and seagoing craft of every description.
It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon or suffer or
permit the abandoning of any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor,
trailer, truck or truck-tractor, or other vehicle as defined herein,
upon any public street or public or private land in the Borough of
Neptune City or within the right-of-way of any public street or thoroughfare,
or any easement area dedicated to and for the use of the public. Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the placing, keeping
or storage of any such vehicle in an enclosed garage, barn or other
building.
No person shall place, keep or store any junk automobile or
junk automobile body, as heretofore defined in this chapter, on any
public or private property within the Borough of Neptune City unless
such person fully complies with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 39:11-3.
If any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck, truck-tractor or vehicle, as defined in this chapter, shall be abandoned on private land, right-of-way or easement for 30 days or more and is disabled as defined in §
127-2, it shall be presumed that the owner or tenant in possession of said land has abandoned it there or permitted or suffered it to be abandoned there.
Whenever any vehicle impounded by the Police Department shall
remain unclaimed for a period of 90 days, the vehicle shall be sold
under the direction of the Chief of Police at public auction to the
highest bidder. Such auction held shall take place after notice of
such sale has been given at least seven days prior thereto by one
publication in the newspaper circulated in the borough and upon the
mailing of copy of said notice to the owner of the vehicle, by certified
mail, at least seven days prior to the sale. The address of the owner
as shown on the records of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
shall be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this chapter.
[Repealed 9-27-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-15]
A continuance of a violation or a noncompliance with the provisions
of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance, and the Borough Council
shall have the right to apply to the courts of this state of injunctive
relief or other relief in addition to the penalties provided for herein.