HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1737ORDINANCE NO. 17.3•
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CENTRAL POINT MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTIONS 10.12.010 AND 10.12.050
PERTAINING TO DISCARDED AND ABANDONED VEHICLES
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT, OREGON, DO ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Central Point Municipal Code Section 10.12.010
is hereby amended to read as follows:
10.12.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter unless the
context requires otherwise:
A. "Costs" means the expense of removing, storing or
selling a junked vehicle.
B. "Chief of police" includes any authorized law
enforcement officer of the city.
C. "Discarded" means any vehicle which (a,.,.,. -- ~-
one or more of the following conditions: ) is in
1. Inoperative(;), including temporary conditions such
2. wrecked;
3. Dismantled;
4. Partially dismantled;
5. Abandoned;
6. Junked.
Discarded vehicles may be deemed to include major parts thereof
including but not limited to bodies, engines, transmissions and
rear ends.
D. "Person in charge of property++ means any agent,
occupant, lessee, contract purchaser, owner or person having
possession, control or title of property where a vehicle is
located.
E. +'Vehicle'+ means every device in, upon or by which any
person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a
public highway, except devices moved by human power or used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
F. '+Vehicle owner+' means any individual, firm, corporation
or unincorporated association with a claim, either individually
or jointly, of ownership or any interest, legal or equitable, in
a vehicle.
Section 2. Central Point Municipal Code Section 10.12.050
is hereby amended to read as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. (737 (020896)
10.12.050 Evidence of abandonment. A. For purposes of
establishing an abandonment of a motor vehicle pursuant to
Section 10.12.020, the following shall constitute conclusive
evidence of abandonment by the owner or person entitled to
possession thereof:
1. A motor vehicle left parked or standing on
privately owned property without the approval of the owner
thereof where the owner registers complaint to the Chief of
Police; or
2. A motor vehicle left standing for more that) 72
consecutive hours on any street, alley or other municipal
property, which motor vehicle 'is not currently registered under
the laws of the State; or
3. An inoperable motor vehicle left standing for more
than 72 consecutive hours on any street, alley or other municipal
property.
B. It is no defense to subsections A2 or A3 that the motor
vehicle has been moved from one place to another, so long as it
is left on a street, alley or other municipal property for more
than 72 consecutive hours.
Passed by the Council and signed by me in authentication of
its passage this ~_ day of ~ _, 1996.
Mayor Rusty Mc rath
ATTEST:
City Rep nta ~iv
Approved by me this /!o day of , 1996.
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Mayor Rusty McGrath
ORDINANCE NO. 173'7 (020896)