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(A) No person shall store or permit the storing of a discarded vehicle upon any private property within the city unless the vehicle is completely enclosed within a building or unless it is connection with a business enterprise dealing in junked vehicles lawfully conducted within the city.

(B) A police officer or the Public Works Superintendent shall report to the City Manager all cases of nuisances described in this section. She/he shall promptly examine every such case reported her/him; and she/he shall have the right to enter any premises where she/he may have reason to believe such nuisance exists, and shall give immediate notice to the occupant or owner of the premises where such may be found to abate the same.

(C) The City Manager may, after receiving said report, direct that notice be given to the owner of the discarded motor vehicle and to the owner of the property upon which said vehicle is located, directing that said motor vehicle be placed in compliance with this section. If compliance is not effected within ten days from the date of the notice, the police are authorized to remove said nuisance and dispose of said nuisance as allowed by law.

(D) Under no circumstances is the public right-of-way to be used to store discarded vehicles.

(E) 

(1) For purposes of this section, discarded shall mean any vehicle which does not have lawfully affixed thereto an unexpired license plate or is in one or more of the following conditions:

(a) Inoperative;

(b) Wrecked;

(c) Dismantled;

(d) Partially dismantled;

(e) Abandoned; and/or

(f) Junked.

(2) Discarded vehicles may be deemed to include major parts thereof, including but not limited to bodies, engines, transmissions, and rear ends. (Ord. 2015-02, passed 09/14/2015)