The outdoor storage of junked, discarded and
unlicensed motor vehicles on privately owned property within the City
of Hudson is detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare
of the community. The same also constitutes an attractive nuisance
to children and in many ways imperils their safety. Such storage also
endangers the person and property of members of the community since
fuel tanks containing gasoline or gasoline fumes may easily explode.
Such storage is unsightly and depreciates property values. The outdoor
storage of abandoned, junked, discarded and unlicensed motor vehicles
on privately owned properties within the City of Hudson is therefore
regulated for the preservation of the health, safety and general welfare
of the community.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any motor vehicle for which the motor vehicle registration
and inspection has expired for 90 days or more; or any vehicle designed
for operation by any power other than muscular power, but including
a trailer, lacking a current registration plat and which has been
abandoned, junked, discarded, dismantled (in whole or in part) or
is in a rusted or wrecked condition or which is not in condition for
legal use upon the highways.
Every vehicle originally designed and intended to be operated,
drawn or driven, or capable of being operated, drawn or driven, upon
a public highway by any power other than muscular power. For the purposes
of this chapter, the term “motor vehicle” shall include,
but not be limited to, automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles and
trailers.
A person, firm or corporation having property in or title
to a motor vehicle, including a person entitled to the use and possession
of a vehicle subject to a security interest in another person, and
also including any lessee or bailee of a motor vehicle having the
use thereof under lease or otherwise.
A person, firm or corporation who is the owner, contract
purchaser, tenant, lessee, occupant, undertenant, receiver or assignee
of private premises or private property located within the City of
Hudson.
Includes all parcels of real property privately owned, situated
in the City of Hudson, whether occupied or vacant.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation, either as owner, occupant, lessee, agent, tenant or otherwise
of property within the City of Hudson, to store or deposit, or cause
or permit to be stored or deposited, a junk motor vehicle, or part
or piece thereof, on any private property within the City of Hudson
for more than seven days or unless:
A.
Such motor vehicle is stored or deposited in a completely
enclosed building; or
B.
Such motor vehicle is the inventory or part of the
inventory of a new or used motor vehicle dealer located on the premises
in compliance with the ordinances and local laws of the City of Hudson;
or
C.
Such motor vehicle is a camping, house or boat trailer
otherwise stored and used in compliance with the local laws and ordinances
of the City of Hudson and is insured and operable.
Any person committing an offense against any
provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation punishable
as follows: by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days or by
a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $250, or by both such
fine and imprisonment. Upon conviction, the individual shall also
be responsible for an administrative fee of $100 to be paid to the
City Building Department. The continuation of an offense against the
provisions of this article shall constitute, for each day the offense
is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.
