[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Freehold
10-16-1972 (§ 6-7 of the Revised General Ordinances), as amended
through Ord. No. O-99-25. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any real property within the Township which is not a street or highway.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way maintained,
when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular
travel.
A machine propelled by other than human power designed to travel
along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and to transport
persons or property or pull machinery, including, but not by way of limitation,
an automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
No person shall abandon a vehicle within the Township and no person
shall leave a vehicle at any place within the Township for such time and under
such circumstances as to cause the vehicle to reasonably appear to be abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked
or junked vehicle on a street or highway within the Township.
No person in charge or control of property within the Township, whether
as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow partially dismantled,
nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicles to remain on the property
longer than 30 days, and no person shall leave such vehicles on any property
within the Township for a period of time longer than 30 days. This section
shall not apply to a vehicle in an enclosed building; a vehicle on the premises
of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary
to the operation of the business enterprise; or a vehicle in an appropriate
storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the
Township.
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The Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department designated
by him is authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle left at any place
within the Township which appears to be present in violation of this chapter.
Such a vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in
accordance with applicable statutes. The Chief of Police, or any member of
the Police Department acting for him, shall notify the registered and legal
owner in writing by personal service or by certified mail, at the last known
address of the owner, of the removal of the vehicle, the reason for the removal,
and the location of the vehicle. The vehicle shall be retained and impounded
until the owner or his authorized agent pays the cost of such taking, removal
and storage.
