[HISTORY: 1988 Code §§ 198-1 — 198-5
adopted as amended through December 31, 2013. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It is hereby determined and declared that the abandonment or
storage out-of-doors of any motor vehicle not currently in use for
transportation and not currently licensed or registered on any public
street or on any public or private lands within the Township is contrary
and inimical to the public welfare in that such vehicles so abandoned
or stored attract or may attract any person, especially children,
who being so attracted, may play in and about them and be injured
in so doing and in that such vehicles so abandoned or stored out-of-doors
deteriorate and are unsightly and are detrimental to and depreciate
the value of properties in the neighborhood where they are located
and in the Township as a whole.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck,
truck-trailer or vehicle which is found without the current year's
registration or identification markers as required by law, or which
is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and the
driver or person owning or in charge thereof neglects or refuses to
move the same to a place where it will not obstruct traffic.
Any automobile which is no longer in actual use as a motor
vehicle, which is wholly unfit without rebuilding or reconditioning
for use in highway transportation or which has been discarded for
use as a motor vehicle or otherwise abandoned.
Any individual, firm, partnership or corporation being the
owner or having any legal right in, of or to the motor vehicle or
other vehicle as herein defined.
The Police Department of the Township of Wayne.
As defined in N.J.S.A. 39:1-1 et seq. of the Revised Statutes
of the State of New Jersey.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon or suffer or permit
the abandoning of any vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck
or truck-trailer or other vehicle as defined herein out-of-doors upon
any public or private lands in the Township of Wayne or on any public
street or between the right-of-way side lines of any public right-of-way
therein. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the
placing, keeping or storage of any such vehicle in a carport, enclosed
garage, barn or other building.
B.
This chapter shall not apply to lawfully operated junk yards nor
to motor vehicles located or stored in garages or other buildings,
nor to motor vehicles being held for sale, resale, repair or maintenance
if at a regular place of business where such commercial activity is
permitted, nor to vehicles used for agricultural, business or property
maintenance purposes, which vehicles are not required to be registered
because they remain and are used solely on private property.
[Ord. No. 53-2014]
Any vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck or truck-trailer or other vehicle, including motorcycles, motorized bikes and mopeds, which is abandoned or stolen as hereinabove set forth, shall be impounded by the Police Department. Any person who seeks to recover an impounded vehicle shall pay the fees as prescribed in Chapter 191, Towing and Storage, of the Township Code.
[Ord. No. 53-2014]
No person shall place, keep or store any junk automobile or
junk automobile body on any public or private property within the
Township of Wayne, nor shall, any person who owns any real property
within the Township allow any such automobile or body to remain on
his/her land, and failure to remove such automobile or body after
10 days' notice to do so by the Property Maintenance Official shall
constitute a violation of this chapter.
