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HomeMy WebLinkAboutD-69 Junk Car Violationremoval and fixing penalties for violation. B~ IT ORDAINED: Section 1. This Ordinance is to replace, repeal and supersede all previous Ordinances defining junk, junk cars, requiring their removal and fixing penalties for violation. Section 2. The word "junk" used in this Ordinance shall mean any articles in any form composed of or consisting of any of the following enumerated second hand, discarded, abandoned or cast-off metals or materials, namely, iron, brass, bronze, copper, tin, zinc, lead or any other metals or compounds thereof, broken glass, rags, clothing, rubber, plastics and synthetics substances and fabrics, bottles, papers, feathers or any other wastes material or any com- pound or by-product of the foregoing enumerated materials; -junk shall also include and mean, wrecked, abandoned o~ dismateled auto- mobiles or parts thereof. For the purpose of this Ordinance, a "junk car" shall mean any motor vehicle which: ~) Does not bear a currently valid license plate, and (b) Not in a garage or building. JUNEM. H~DGES, RECOR~,HAMILTONCOLINTy, i~ID. Because of the danger to health by vermin and insects and be- cause of the danger to the safety of children attracted by such junk or junk cars, abandoned and junked motor vehibles are hereby declared to be nuisances except in lawfully pperated junk yards. Section 3. It ~hall be unlawfful for any person to store or to allow to remain in the open upon public or private property within the Town of Carmel, Indiana, any disassembled or non-operative and ~l ~a n~ ~k~_ ~m~ak~d or ~andoned motor vehicle for a ~eriod stable yards, lots; Section 4. Because of the danger to health by vermin and insects and because of the danger to the safety of children attracted by such, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, permit or have upon their premises, whether owned or leased by them, any one or more of the following unsanitary, fly producing disease causing conditions, to-wit: Filthy or littered cellars, house yards, barn yards, factory yards, vacant areas in rear of stores or vacant 2. Garbage in any quanity which is not securely protected from flies in galvanized iron receptacles; 3. Trash, litter, rags, accumulation of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, tin cans, lumber not neatly piled or anything whatsoever in which flies and rats may breed and multiple. Section 5. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be fined in any amount of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each date during or on which violation occurs or continues. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARMEL, INDIANA, this //~ day of ,,, 1974. JUNE M. HEDGES, RECORD~R, HAMILTON COUNTY, iND.