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ORDINANCE
NO. 12
STORAGE
OF DISABLED AND/OR UNLICENSED VEHICLES PROHIBITED
12.01DEFINITIONS:
Terms used in this section shall have the
following meanings:
Owner shall include any old, stripped,
junked and/or wrecked motor vehicle including trucks, cars or any other
motorized vehicle not in good and safe operating condition, and shall include
any vehicle stored in the open without being licensed in excess of 30 days.
12.02 NUISANCE:
No vehicle as herein above defined shall be
stored or allowed to remain in the open upon public or private property within
the Town of Greenville for a period in excess of one month, unless it is in
connection with a duly authorized sales or repair business enterprise located in
a properly zoned area. Any
violation of this section is a nuisance.
12.03 ABATEMENT
BY OWNER:
The owner of any property within this Town
upon which a vehicle as herein above defined is stored or permitted to remain,
and also the owner of any such vehicle, shall jointly and severally abate said
nuisance by the prompt removal of such vehicle into completely enclosed
buildings authorized to be used for such storage purposes if within the limits
of the Town, or otherwise remove the same to a location outside the Town.
12.04 VEHICLE
UPON PUBLIC PROPERTY:
Whenever the Building Inspector or
the Town Constable shall find any such vehicle placed or stored in the open upon
public property within the limits of the Town, such vehicle shall be removed to
a junk or salvage yard and stored therein for a period of 30 days.
At the end of said time, such junk or salvage yard shall dispose of such
vehicle unless it has previously been claimed by the owner.
12.05 VEHICLES UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY:
Whenever the Building Inspector or
the Town Constable shall find any such vehicle placed or stored in the open upon
private property within the limits of the Town, the owner of such property and
the owner of the vehicle, if he can be located, shall be given a 3 day written
notice by certified mail to remove the same.
If such vehicle is not removed within the time specified, the Constable
shall have it removed by a junk or auto salvage dealer.
The cost of removal by such dealer shall be billed jointly and severally
to the owner of the property upon which the vehicle had been placed or stored
and to the owner of the vehicle if he can be located.
12.06 STORAGE
COSTS:
If such vehicles are claimed by the owner,
the junk or salvage yard shall charge a reasonable fee for handling and storing.
12.07 SALVAGE
YARD EXCEPTED:
The provisions of subsection Nuisance shall
not apply to auto salvage yards and/or junk yards that are duly authorized under
the ordinances of the town and have been issued a permit to operate as such
salvage yard and/or junk yard under this code.
12.08 DISPOSAL
OF UNCLAIMED VEHICLES:
When any such vehicle has been removed and
placed in storage by the Town as herein provided and such vehicle is not claimed
within 30 days after such storage, it shall be sold by the Town.
If the proceeds of the sale are insufficient to pay the cost for the
removal and storage, said owners jointly and severally shall be liable to the
Town for the balance of the costs. If
the proceeds are in excess of costs, the balance shall be paid to said owners.
Adopted this 8th day of December,
1997. Re-adopted January 21, 1998.
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