[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Ewing 11-24-1998 by Ord. No. 98-13 as Ch. 222 of the 1998
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Certain terms as used in this chapter shall
have the following meanings:
Any motor vehicle, equipment or machinery, omnibus, road
tractor, trailer, truck, truck-trailer or vehicle which is so disabled
as to constitute an obstruction to traffic and/or is mechanically
inoperative.
Any junk motor vehicle or junk motor vehicle body which is
a motor vehicle, equipment, machinery, omnibus, road tractor, trailer,
truck, truck-trailer or vehicle no longer in use as such or which
is wholly unfit for such use on the roads and streets without substantial
repair, rebuilding or reconditioning.
Intended to have the meaning stated and defined in N.J.S.A.
39:1-1 et seq.
Includes any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer,
truck, truck-trailer, equipment or machinery or vehicle which is found
without the current year's registration or identification markers
as required by law.
No person shall park, leave or store any unregistered,
disabled or inoperable motor vehicle, machinery or equipment on any
public lands or premises.
No person shall park, leave, store or maintain
any unregistered, disabled or inoperable motor vehicle, machinery
or equipment for a period of more than 10 days upon any private lands
or premises, unless said vehicle, machinery or equipment is garaged
or exempt as hereinafter provided.
[Added 10-9-2001 by Ord. No. 01-27]
No person shall park, leave, store or maintain
any registered or unregistered, able or disabled, operable or inoperable
motor vehicle, machinery or equipment for purposes of contents storage
for a period of more than 10 days upon any private or public lands
or premises. Failure to remove stored contents from such vehicle machinery,
or equipment after 10 days' notice to do so by the Police Department
shall constitute a violation of this chapter. This section shall not
apply to any person using a vehicle for business purposes whose business
requires that equipment and materials be stored in such vehicle on
a regular basis.
No owner or occupier of any private lands and
premises shall permit, allow or suffer any unregistered, disabled
or inoperable motor vehicle or machinery to be parked, left, stored
or maintained on that person's lands or premises for more than 10
days, unless such vehicle, machinery or equipment is garaged or exempt
as hereinafter provided. Failure to remove such vehicle, equipment
or machinery after 10 days' notice to do so by the Police Department
shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
A.
Procedure. Any person, owner or occupier maintaining a motor vehicle exempt, as listed below, shall obtain an exemption letter from the Chief of Police. Such letter shall be valid for one year from issuance, except in the case of Subsection B below. Such letter shall be displayed in the vehicle so that it is readily observable by enforcement officers. The fee for such letter shall be as set forth in Chapter 172, Fees.
B.
This chapter shall not apply to any person, owner
or occupier having a license or permission to maintain any such vehicle,
machinery or equipment under any appropriate ordinance of the Township.
[Amended 10-9-2001 by Ord. No. 01-27]
The premises where any such vehicle, machinery
or equipment is kept, stored or maintained or used for contents storage
purposes, in violation of this chapter, shall be deemed to be a nuisance
and detrimental to the health and welfare of the residents of the
Township in that the exposure of the view of such motor vehicles,
machinery or equipment is unsightly and detrimental to the neighborhoods
of the Township of Ewing and dangerous to persons of tender years,
and the Township shall have the right to apply for injunctive or other
relief in addition to the penalties herein.
[Amended 10-9-2001 by Ord. No. 01-27]
Any police officer or duly authorized agent
of the Township of Ewing is authorized to remove any such unregistered
or disabled vehicle, machinery or equipment or vehicle used for contents
storage purposes from said property to a storage place or garage,
the expenses involved in such removal and storage of such motor vehicle
to be upon the owner of such vehicle. The officer or officers removing
the vehicle shall certify the costs thereof to the Township Council,
which shall examine the certificate and, if found correct, shall cause
the costs shown thereon to be charged against said lands. The amounts
so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall
be added to and become and form a part of the taxes next to be assessed
and levied upon said lands and bear interest at the same rate as taxes,
and shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the
same manner as taxes.
Every day that a violation of this chapter occurs
shall be deemed a separate violation.
