[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees 5-4-2004 by L.L. No. 1-2004.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
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 the 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 being the owner, contract purchaser,
tenant, lessee, occupant, undertenant, receiver or assignee of private premises
or private property located within the Village.
Includes all parcels of real property privately owned, situated in
the Village, whether occupied or vacant.
Any motor vehicle which is not currently registered.
A.
Only the standard-type unaltered passenger car or station wagon,
without commercial lettering or sign, shall be parked or stored in the Village.
No bus, trailer, sleeping bus, sleeping car, boat, aircraft or helicopter
or any vehicle which is designed or used for living or sleeping shall be parked,
stored, or maintained on any lot in the Village. In case of special hardship,
upon written application by a resident, the Board of Trustees may issue a
temporary permit for such parking or storage.
B.
No truck or commercial-type vehicle shall be parked on any lot
in the Village except when being used in performing a service for the resident
of the lot upon which such vehicle is parked, and when so marked or lettered
on the outside of such vehicle as to state the name and address of the owner
of such vehicle.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either as
owner, occupant, lessee, agent, tenant or otherwise of property within the
Village, to store or deposit, or cause or permit to be stored or deposited,
an unregistered motor vehicle, or part or piece thereof, on any public or
private property within the Village, unless such motor vehicle is stored or
deposited in a completely enclosed building.
A.
If the provisions of the foregoing sections are believed
to be violated, the Building Inspector shall serve a written notice, either
personally or by registered, certified or ordinary mail, upon the owner, occupant
or person having charge of such private property, to comply with the requirements
of this chapter. The Building Inspector may determine ownership of any parcel
of land in the Village of Plandome Heights from the current assessment roll
of the Village and may serve written notice upon the owner thereof by mailing
such notice to the owner at the address listed on the current assessment roll.
Failure to remove the unregistered motor vehicle within the periods
prescribed above is a violation of this chapter.
The Village may, at its option, remove an unregistered motor vehicle,
and if done so, shall be at the owner's expense.
