[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Hanover 11-10-1966 by Ord. No. 11-66. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The following definitions shall apply in the
interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association
or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Township of Hanover which is
not a street or highway.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed
to travel along the ground by the use of wheels, treads, runners or
slides, and shall include, without limitation, an automobile, truck,
trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
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.
No person shall leave or cause to be left any
nonoperating, discarded, dismantled, wrecked, junked or unlicensed
vehicle on any street or highway within the Township.
No person in charge or control of any property
within the Township, whether as owner, tenant, lessee, occupant or
otherwise, shall willfully place, deposit, store, leave or keep any
discarded, wrecked, junked or dismantled vehicle, which is also unlicensed
or nonoperating, on such property, or suffer, permit or allow any
such vehicle to be placed, deposited, stored, left or kept on such
property, for a longer period of time than 15 days; except that the
provisions hereof shall not apply with regard to such vehicle:
A.Â
In an enclosed building, garage, barn or shed.
B.Â
On the premises of a business enterprise operated
in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such
business enterprise.
C.Â
In an appropriate storage place or depository maintained
in a lawful place and manner by the Township.
A.Â
The Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department
is hereby authorized to remove or to cause to be removed any vehicle
left at any place within the Township which reasonably appears to
be in violation of this chapter or which appears to be lost, stolen
or unclaimed.
B.Â
With respect to vehicles on private property, the
Chief of Police shall serve or cause to be served a notice, in writing,
either personally or by certified mail, upon the owner, tenant, lessee
or occupant of the property, requiring such owner, tenant, lessee
or occupant, as the case may be, to remove such vehicle within a certain
period of time, not less than 15 days after the date of service, to
be specified in the notice. In the event that such vehicle is not
removed within the time specified, the Chief of Police may impound
said vehicle or cause the same to be impounded and, for that purpose,
may enter upon said private property upon which such vehicle may be
located.
C.Â
Any vehicle impounded pursuant to any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be held until lawfully claimed or disposed of
in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:1OA-1 et seq. or
N.J.S.A. 40:47-20, whichever may be applicable.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: N.J.S.A. 40:47-20 was repealed
by L. 1972, c. 133, effective 8-17-1972. For current provisions, see
N.J.S.A. 40A:14-157.
The owner of any private property from which
a vehicle is removed and impounded pursuant to the preceding section
hereof, and the tenant, lessee or occupant of the premises, if any,
shall be jointly and severally liable for the cost and expense, including
reasonable overhead charges, paid or incurred by the Township in effecting
such removal and impounding and shall be paid by the person or persons
liable therefor upon demand.
[Amended 7-11-1991 by Ord. No. 16-91]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding
$1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or to
both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that such violation is committed
or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall
be punishable as such hereunder.
