[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Walhalla 5-24-1979 by Ord. No. 1979-6; amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
JUNK
Wood, bricks, broken concrete, cinder block, inoperable machinery or parts thereof, refrigerators, furnaces, washing machines or dryers, stoves or other appliances or unsightly debris, such as may tend to depreciate property values in the area or create a nuisance or hazard. Scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead or scrap zinc and all other scrap materials and their alloys, bones, rags, used cloth, used rubber, used rope, used tinfoil, old or used machinery, used tools and appliances, used fixtures, used lumber, used boxes or crates, used pipe or pipe fittings, used tires and other manufactured goods that are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing condition but are subject to being dismantled. Wastepaper, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, iron, steel, drums, scrap wood (excluding firewood), and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, including wrecked, scrapped, ruined, dismantled, unrepairable, salvage or abandoned motor vehicles or automobiles, truck-campers, trailers or parts thereof.
The City of Walhalla will not issue a license to any individual, firm or corporation in the City of Walhalla for the purpose of conducting a business dealing in junk, trash, junk vehicles or junk vehicle parts or storing or maintaining the same within the corporate limits of the City of Walhalla.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep, harbor or maintain any junk, junk machinery or junk vehicles within the City of Walhalla within the public view. Inoperative vehicles, without motors, wheels and tires or other necessary parts, are hereby declared to be junk vehicles. Such vehicles are a refuge for rodents, mosquitoes and other pests and create fire hazards against the health and safety of the citizens. The keeping of same shall be deemed a public nuisance in violation of health ordinances and fire regulations and declared to be a nuisance.
The Code Enforcement Officer is hereby authorized to give written notice to any person or persons violating § 185-3 of this chapter requiring them to remove such junk or similar materials from the premises within 30 days from the date of notice; and in the event that the person responsible for the premises shall fail to remove the junk and to clean up the premises and remove any junk vehicle, said premises shall be declared to be a nuisance and the nuisance may be abated by the Code Enforcement Officer.
Any person or persons violating this chapter by failing to remove the junk or junk vehicles from the premises shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or 30 days in jail. After due notice and conviction each day the nuisance is maintained shall constitute a separate violation.