[Added 2-16-1967; amended 9-24-2013 by Ord. No.
2013-05]
The chapter shall be administered and enforced
by the Code Enforcement Officer.
[Added 4-30-1974]
No person shall place, abandon or leave, keep or store, or suffer or permit the placing, abandoning, leaving, keeping or storage of, any abandoned automobile, as described in §
98-1 of this chapter, out of doors upon any public or private land in the township or between the right-of-way side lines of any street or public highway. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the placing, keeping or storage of any such abandoned automobile in an enclosed garage, barn or other building.
[Added 4-30-1974]
If any abandoned automobile, as described in §
98-1 of this chapter, shall be left, placed, kept or stored on private lands for 48 hours or more, it shall be presumed that the owner, tenant or occupant in possession of said land left, placed, kept or stored it there, or permitted or suffered it to be left, placed, kept or stored there.
[Added 4-30-1974; amended 1-31-1978; 5-26-1981; 9-24-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-05]
The chapter shall not apply to:
A. Motor
vehicles which are kept for drag or stock car racing as long as said
motor vehicles are kept on registered trailers.
B. Motor
vehicles which are held for sale or resale in a commercial zone are
exempt from the provisions of this chapter so long as the motor vehicle
being stored is in a complete and operable condition.
C. Motor
vehicles which are owned by persons who are in the military service
stationed outside the State of New Jersey.
D. Motor vehicles which would qualify as an historic motor vehicle under
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:3-27.3.
[Added 4-30-1974; amended 1-17-1984]
Whenever it shall appear to the enforcing officer that §
98-3 of this chapter is being violated and that the land on which the violation exists is privately owned, he shall, in writing, notify the owner, tenant or occupant in possession of the land on which the violation exists to abate the violation by removing the article or articles constituting the violation from the township or into an enclosed garage, barn or other building within 10 days of the service of the notice. The notice shall be served upon such owner, tenant or occupant personally or by leaving it at his usual place of abode with some member of his household over the age of 14 years, or the notice shall be served upon him by registered or certified mail with return receipt addressed to him at his usual residence, if ascertainable, or otherwise by notice published in the newspaper in which the legal notices of the township may be published, and the said owner, tenant or occupant shall so abate the violation within the time fixed by the notice.
[Added 4-30-1974]
Whenever the enforcing officer finds any abandoned automobile which has been abandoned, kept or stored contrary to the provisions of this chapter, said enforcing officer shall remove, secure the removal of and/or impound said abandoned automobile after notice has been given as provided in §
98-6 above.
[Added 5-26-1981]
This chapter shall be in full force and effect
immediately upon its adoption and its publication, as provided by
law.