Chapter 8.10
JUNK1
Sections:
8.10.040 Exemptions from provisions.
8.10.010 Unlawful storage.
It is unlawful for any person to keep or store or to permit any other person to keep or store any junk on any privately owned property within the city, or to keep or store any junk in a building that is not wholly enclosed, except for doors for ingress and egress, and any person violating this chapter shall be guilty of maintaining a nuisance. [Ord. X-3-5 § 1, 1972.]
8.10.020 Definition.
For the purpose of this chapter, “junk” is defined to include all abandoned motor vehicles incapable of being operated, all old appliances or parts thereof, all old iron or other metal, glass, paper, cardboard, old lumber, old wood, old mattresses and all other waste or discard material. [Ord. X-3-5 § 2, 1972.]
8.10.030 Notice of violation.
Before any person is charged with a violation of this chapter he shall have been advised by certified or registered letter from the city council that a complaint is contemplated and by such letter shall have been given not less than 30 days to cause the removal of such junk. Copies of such letters shall be kept and filed in court along with any complaint filed hereunder. [Ord. X-3-5 § 3, 1972.]
8.10.040 Exemptions from provisions.
This chapter shall not apply to any automobile wrecking business located in a proper zone under the zoning ordinance (LCMC Title 18) where all junk and wrecked cars are screened behind proper fences, nor shall it apply to any appliance dealer who in a proper zone has screened his old appliances from general view and from access by children or trespassers, nor to material stored on premises of any manufacturing enterprise for use in connection with such enterprise as conducted in accordance with zoning and other ordinances. [Ord. X-3-5 § 4, 1972.]
8.10.050 Violation – Penalty.
Any person found guilty of violating this chapter shall be fined not to exceed $300.00 and/or sentenced to not exceed 30 days in the city jail; and in addition the court may order such nuisance abated by causing removal of such junk either by the defendant or other person or by the use of city employees. [Ord. X-3-5 § 5, 1972.]
See also Chapter 8.15 LCMC, Junk Vehicles, which derives from Ord. X-8-12.
Code reviser’s note: Ord. X-8-12 provides:
Any reference to junk vehicles contained in Ord. X-3-5 shall be superseded by [Ord. X-8-12].