§ 34-41. Keeping unserviceable vehicles prohibited.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep on any residential, commercial, industrial or agricultural property any unserviceable vehicle, unless such unserviceable vehicle is shielded from view, except for a vehicle temporarily stored on private real property for the purpose of repair, if the vehicle has a currently valid registration and currently valid license plate affixed thereon, and the motor vehicle is titled in the name of the owner of the property upon which the vehicle is situated or is titled in the name of the person currently residing on the premises. The term "temporarily stored" shall mean that the vehicle shall be openly stored for no more than 60 calendar days.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for the owner of any land in the county to cause or permit to be stored thereon, at any location, more than two unserviceable vehicles.

(c)

Further, it shall be unlawful to store such two vehicles within the front and side yard setbacks established for the zoning district, except for the following:

(1)

Unserviceable vehicles stored on the premises of a lawfully established and maintained junkyard, vehicle repair business, garbage or waste disposal site, sanitary landfill or on the lands of a bona fide agricultural operation.

(2)

Vehicles stored within a completely enclosed building.

(d)

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any property which, as of 1975, there was the accumulation and open storage of more than two vehicles.

(e)

The provisions of this article shall not apply to any abandoned property which shall be within an enclosed building upon such property or upon the solidly enclosed and fenced premises maintained by the county as a depository for such abandoned property.

(Ord. No. 98-02, § IV, 4-21-1998)

Cross reference

Traffic and vehicles, ch. 90.