Each owner or occupant of real property within the city shall
keep such property free of, and shall not permit or suffer the presence
of, any junked vehicles on such property. A junked vehicle that is
located in a place where it is visible from a public place or public
right-of-way is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general
public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism,
creates a fire hazard, constitutes an attractive nuisance creating
a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and is detrimental to
the economic welfare of the state by producing urban blight adverse
to the maintenance and continuing development of the city and is declared
to be a public nuisance.
(1999 Code, sec. 7.708)
A junked vehicle or vehicle part found to be a nuisance under
this division or removed with the owner's permission may be disposed
of by removal to a scrap yard, a motor vehicle demolisher, or any
suitable site operated by the city for processing as a scrap or salvage,
provided that such vehicle shall not be reconstructed or made operable.
The city may operate a disposal site if the council determines that
commercial channels of disposition are not available or are inadequate,
and it may make final disposition of the vehicles or vehicle parts,
or the city may transfer the vehicle parts to another disposal site
if the disposal is only scrap or salvage.
(1999 Code, sec. 7.710)
The chief of police or his duly authorized agents may enter
private property for the purposes specified in the procedures set
out above to examine a vehicle or vehicle part, obtain information
as to the identity of the vehicle, and remove or cause the removal
of a vehicle or vehicle part that constitutes a nuisance. The municipal
court may issue orders necessary to enforce the procedures set out
above.
(1999 Code, sec. 7.711)
This article does not affect a law or ordinances authorizing
the immediate removal, as an obstruction to traffic, of a vehicle
left on public property.
(1999 Code, sec. 7.712)