[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Mount Pocono 6-2-1997 by Ord. No. 4-1997. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
The Borough finds that the keeping of unregistered
motor vehicles on private properties within the Borough constitutes
a health and safety hazard. The Borough specifically finds that the
keeping of such unregistered vehicles creates:
B.
The Borough further finds that the keeping of said
unregistered motor vehicles should be regulated by the Borough in
order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation, or any agents thereof, to do, authorize, aid, or abet
any of the following described actions or matters, such regulations
or restrictions being intended to promote the general health of the
Borough: to park, store or keep upon any land within the Borough of
Mount Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, for any longer than a thirty-day
period, any unregistered motor vehicle, unless the same is parked,
stored or kept within an enclosed building, garage or other enclosed
improvement located on said land within said Borough, or to permit
or allow the same for any longer than a thirty-day period, to be parked,
stored or kept upon any land within the Borough of Mount Pocono, Monroe
County, Pennsylvania, unless the same is parked, stored or kept within
an enclosed building, garage or other enclosed improvement located
on said land within said Borough.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Borough
of Mount Pocono Codes Officer or Zoning Officer, or any other adult
individual so designated by the Borough of Mount Pocono. Initial enforcement
shall be by letter sent to the property owner by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or by personal service, advising of the violation
and giving the owner a thirty-day period within which to come into
compliance. Should the unregistered motor vehicle or vehicles at issue
not be removed or housed in accordance with the above provisions of
this chapter within said thirty-day period, the owner shall be subject
to a penalty of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and,
in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for
not more than 30 days, until such owner comes into compliance. This
chapter may be enforced by the filing of an enforcement action before
the District Justice of appropriate jurisdiction, or an action in
equity in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas.
