[Ord. No. 15-05.15, 5-19-2015]
The following words or terms are, for purposes of this Article,
defined as follows:
Any mechanism, device, apparatus, or equipment, designed
primarily for indoor household use, including, but not limited to,
stoves, refrigerators, ovens, microwave ovens, washing machines, clothes
dryers, sewing machines, televisions, and similar items.
Materials and sawhorses used to repair, remodel, or construct
any building or structure, including but not limited to lumber, windows,
doors, window and door frames, roofing, siding, gutters, drain spouts,
bricks, flooring, and similar items.
Any motorized vehicle or equipment, including towed equipment,
designed primarily for commercial or industrial use, including but
not limited to forklifts, bucket trucks, fuel trucks and tractor trailers,
and similar items.
Any items of household furniture designed primarily for indoor
use, including, but not limited to, sofas, couches, divans, rocking
chairs, reclining chairs, ottomans, beds, mattresses, box springs,
desks, tables, and similar items, but excluding those items of furniture
designed primarily for outdoor use.
The open collection of cans, paper, trash, rubbish or garbage,
manure, wire, rags, iron or other metal, tires, plastic, barrels,
pallets, carpet, food containers, cardboard, construction scrap and
debris, glass, batteries, shopping carts, motor vehicles kept for
the purposes of salvaging parts; motor vehicle or farm machinery parts
and accessories, including but not limited to doors, bumpers, truck
beds, motors and transmissions, equipment or parts.
Any mechanical device designed primarily for the cutting
of grass, trees or weeds, or for the planting, tilling or cultivation
of lawns or gardens, whether push-, electric- or gas-powered, including
but not limited to chainsaws, lawn mowers, tillers, garden tractors,
lawn seeders, fertilizer spreaders, including their component parts,
and other similar items.
[Ord. No. 15-05.15, 5-19-2015]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning,
leasing or being in possession of any real estate, to collect, display,
place, store, or allow or suffer to be collected, displayed, placed
or stored upon the property, any appliances, furniture, building materials,
commercial/industrial equipment, junk and salvage on properties zoned
R-1, R-2, R-3 of the Marceline zoning code[1] for any period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours,
or in excess of four (4) items of lawn equipment, for any period of
time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours, except as follows:
1.
Within a house, garage, outbuilding, building or other similar
type structure otherwise allowed by the Marceline zoning code; or
2.
Within a storage bin or other structure, provided that such
storage bin or structure consists of a solid fence or wall and such
items are not clearly visible through such bin and provided further
that such fence, wall structure or bin is of a type otherwise allowed
by the zoning code; or
3.
In the case of building materials, such materials may be stored
or placed on the property for a period of thirty (30) consecutive
days, provided that such materials are currently being used in the
erection, repair or maintenance of any building or structure located
on the real estate where such building materials are stored or placed;
or
4.
When permitted by the City for garage/yard sales for a period
not to exceed a seventy-two-hour period.
[Ord. No. 15-05.15, 5-19-2015]
This Article shall not apply to any owner, tenant, or other
person operating a commercial or business establishment, authorized
by the zoning code, which offers or collects such items for sale at
retail or wholesale provided that such business is in possession of
a current business license issued by the City or is otherwise exempt
from obtaining same.
[Ord. No. 15-05.15, 5-19-2015]
Any person found in violation of any of the provisions of this
Article may be fined an amount not to exceed the sum of five hundred
dollars ($500.00). Each day that a violation shall continue shall
be deemed a separate offense.
