[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Butler 11-1-1965 as Ch. XIV, Part 2, of the 1965 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Amended 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as "Township of Butler Abandoned and Junked Vehicle Ordinance."
The following words and phrases, when used in
this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section,
except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
A period of 24 hours measured from midnight to midnight of
any calendar day.
Any vehicle outside of a fully enclosed building not in full
and complete working order, without current registration plates, and
without applicable state inspection sticker, or any vehicle stored
for resale as junk metal, or any vehicle outside of a fully enclosed
building stored for selling parts therefrom.
[Amended 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765]
Every natural person, association or corporation. Whenever
used in any clause prescribing or imposing a fine or penalty of imprisonment
in default thereof, the term as applied to associations shall mean
any member thereof, and as applied to corporations shall mean the
president or secretary thereof.
[Amended 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765]
Except where specifically permitted by Chapter 300, Zoning, of the Code of the Township of Butler, it shall be unlawful for any person to store any abandoned or junked vehicle on private or public property within the geographical boundaries of the Township of Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, for any portion of a calendar day. The storage of any vehicle as hereinabove prohibited in this section for more than one calendar day shall constitute a separate and distinct unlawful act for any portion of each calendar day.
[Amended 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765]
Any person, upon summary conviction before a Justice of the Peace of violating any of the provisions of § 278-3 of this chapter, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $600, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 105, Prosecution
of violators, which immediately followed this section, was repealed
10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765.
