Except as provided in Sections
178-3 and
178-4, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either as owner of any private lands or as occupant lessee, tenant or agent of the owner of any private lands or as trespasser or other user of private lands, with or without permission, or in any other capacity whatsoever, to store, deposit, place, maintain, accumulate, leave or park or permit to be stored, deposited, placed, maintained, accumulated, left or parked on any private lands or public lands or highways within the Township of Dennis any junk vehicle for a period of 48 hours.
Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a motor vehicle junkyard
operating under a valid, current state license and not violating any
other ordinance of the township from storing, maintaining or accumulating
junk vehicles in the normal course of business; provided, however,
that any junk vehicles so stored, maintained or accumulated must be
in an enclosure completely surrounded by a solid fence or wall at
least three feet taller than the highest junk vehicle or accumulated
junk vehicles and in any event of a minimum height of seven feet,
with necessary solid gates.
Junk vehicles, as hereinabove defined, are hereby declared to be filth, trash and debris, within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.13 et seq., as said law now exists or may hereafter be amended; and this section and Sections
178-6 and
178-7 of this chapter are adopted pursuant to the authority of the same.
Upon 10 days' written notice being given to the record
owner and the occupant of any private lands in the township directing
that junk vehicles be removed, if said junk vehicles are not removed,
the Code Enforcement Officer, Construction Official or the duly appointed
Health Officer may proceed to remove or direct the removal of the
same.
Upon said junk vehicles' being removed by or under the direction of one of the officers designated in Section
178-6 hereof, said officer shall certify the cost thereof to the governing body, which shall examine the certificate and, if found correct, shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against said lands. The amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands, the same to bear interest at the same rate as taxes, and shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
[Added 3-22-99 by Ord. No. 99-05]
Any person, corporation, or other entity who shall violate Chapter
178 of this Code shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) nor more than $1,000, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, to a period of community service not exceeding 90 days or to any combination of these penalties.