The Town Board of the Town of Southampton, recognizing
that the uncontrolled placing or keeping of junked motor vehicles
constitutes an unsanitary, unsafe, unsightly and dangerous condition,
and that to protect and promote the public safety, health and general
welfare of the people of the Town of Southampton it is necessary to
provide for the removal of such junked vehicles, hereby declares such
junked vehicles to be a public nuisance.
[Amended 5-23-2023 by L.L. No. 21-2023]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
JUNKED VEHICLE
Any vehicle, including but not limited to: trailers, campers,
boats, motorcycles, and automobiles, which is without a currently
valid license plate or plates, or state-issued registration, and is
in such a rusted, wrecked, discarded, dismantled, partly dismantled,
inoperative or abandoned condition as to be no longer intended or
in condition for legal use on the public highways or waterways. The
Building Inspector, ordinance enforcement officer, or fire marshal
shall make the final determination as to whether any particular vehicle
shall be classified as a junked vehicle.
[Amended 5-23-2023 by L.L. No. 21-2023]
Unless an emergency shall be determined by the
Building Inspector, ordinance enforcement officer, or fire marshal
to exist, every notice issued pursuant to this chapter shall be served
at least 30 days before the time for compliance specified therein.
It shall be sufficient service of such notice if it is posted in a
conspicuous place upon the premises and upon the vehicle affected
and a copy thereof mailed by certified or registered mail on the same
day as such posting, to the last known address of the owner of the
real property so affected as the same shall appear in the Town tax
rolls.