[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Pilesgrove 7-8-1969. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 205.
The following definitions shall apply in the
interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Township which is not a street
or highway.
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed
to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides
and transport persons or property or pull machinery and shall include,
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy, wagon and pickup truck cap.
[Amended 7-9-1991 by Ord. No. 91-3]
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the
Township, and no person shall leave any vehicle at any place within
the Township for such time and under such circumstances as to cause
such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
A.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating,
wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the Township
over 24 hours.
B.
No person in charge or control of any property within
the Township, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise,
shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked
or discarded vehicle or part of a vehicle to remain on such property
longer than 30 days, and no person shall leave any such vehicle on
any property within the Township for a longer time than 30 days, except
that this chapter shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed
building, nor vehicles used exclusively for farming purposes.
[Amended 7-9-1991 by Ord. No. 91-3]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined in an amount not exceeding $200 or be imprisoned
in the county jail for a period not exceeding 90 days, or be both
so fined and imprisoned. Each day such violation is committed or permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable
as such hereunder.