100 Block Ormsby Ave Association

METRO CODES- ON JUNKED CARS & BLIGHT

Directions: Click on the image file located to the left of this text. Once enlarged, print out from your desktop printer and keep as a quick reference to the city's definitions of illegally parked or abandoned vehicles, or use as a way to give notice to an especially serious violator of the city's ordinance before notifying police. Many people don't realize a vehicle they have parked, or stored in a certain manner, may actually be deemed an environmental nuisance by the city. Most folks, once informed, would choose to come into compliance in a reasonable amount of time.

IPL Code of Ordinance Chapter 93, sec 93.01-93.09 [Abridged]

Abandoned & Junk Vehicles

Sec. 93.01. Definitions.
Director. The Director of the Dept. of Inspections, Permits and Licenses [IPL] or a designated representative.

Disrepair. Dangerously rusted, wrecked, or without all properly inflated tires, windshields, glass, major chassis components, brake-lights, or without other vehicle components required by law.

Illegally parked. Motor vehicles parked or stored in violation of this chapter.

Motor vehicle. Every device, including major parts thereof, in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway, except devices moved by human or animal power, devices used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks, and devices designed to be pulled, drawn, or towed by a motor vehicle.

Motor vehicle owner. Any individual, firm, corporation, or unincorporated association with a claim, either individual or joint, or ownership, or any legal or equitable interest in a vehicle.

Private property. Any real property in the city which is privately owned.

Sec. 93.02. Prohibition against parking or storage on private property.

A. ...Not more than one currently unregistered motor vehicle shall be parked or stored on any occupied privately-owned residential or commercial property within the city, nor shall any currently unregistered motor vehicle be parked or stored on any unimproved property or on the premises of a vacant privately-owned residential or commercial structure. Furthermore, no vehicle shall be at any time in a state of major disassembly or disrepair, nor shall it be in the process of being stripped or dismantled, nor shall it undergo major overhaul, including body work, on any private property within the city, and...
B. … it shall constitute a nuisance detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the city, and it shall be the duty of the registered owner of the motor vehicle, the owner of record of the property, or the person in possession of the private property upon which the motor vehicle is located, to abate the nuisance through removal of the motor vehicle from the city limits, or to have the motor vehicle stored inside a fully-enclosed structure or similarly-enclosed area designed and approved for such purposes.
C. Every motor vehicle on private property shall be either stored inside a fully-enclosed structure or similarly-enclosed area designed and approved for such purposes, or parked or stored in a safe manner on a paved or graveled area, other than a sidewalk.

Sec. 93.03. Additional remedy; removal by city; hearing.
Sec. 93.04. Removal by agreement.
Secs. 93.05—93.09. Reserved.

Chapter 93, sec 93.10, 93.12 & 93.30-93.35 [Abridged]

ENVIRONMENTAL NUISANCES

Sec. 93.30. Definitions.

Appliance. Stoves, refrigerators, freezers, clothes or dish washers, and dryers.

Environmental nuisance.

1. Every unlawful, unwarrantable, dangerous, or unreasonable use of property in such a way as to render the ground, air, water, or food, a material annoyance, hazard, or injury to human health, or which is detrimental to the property of others, or which causes or tends to cause substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which the property is located. The term includes, but is not limited to the following:

a. The keeping of waste, rubbish, or abandoned appliances in such a manner as can be seen from any public or private way or properties;

b. The keeping, placing, or storage outside a building, or storage in any place accessible to children of any abandoned, unattended, or discarded icebox, ice chest, or refrigerator;

c. Any weeds, grass, or unhealthful plant growth other than crops, trees, bushes, flowers, or other ornamental plants at a height exceeding 12 inches;

d. The disposal or accumulation of foul, decaying, or putrescent substances dangerous to public health in or on any lot, tract of land, street, highway, or sidewalk or alley abutting these which shall by reason of offensive odors become injurious to the health of any person;

e. The deposit or accumulation of manure, unless it is in flyproof receptacles;

f. Any tree in danger of collapse or which poses a danger of contamination because of disease, decay, injury, infestation, or damage;

g. All outbuildings that are or…become unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated, or which constitute a fire hazard, or are dangerous to the public welfare;

h. An abandoned or dangerous sign.

2. Further Definitions...

a. Outbuilding. Any unattached structure...

b. Rubbish. Any combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage....

c. Sign. Any fabricated sign or outdoor display structure, including its structure, displayed in any manner out-of-doors for recognized advertising purposes.

d. Trees. A woody perennial plant having a single, usually, elongate main stem...

e. Waste. Ashes, discarded wood, abandoned, discarded, or unused objects or equipment such as furniture, appliances, cans, or containers; garbage or refuse of any kind, whether liquid or solid; or any accumulation of any foul, decaying, or putrescent substances.

f. Weeds. Any unhealthful plant growth such as, but not limited to, jimson, burdock, rag weed, thistle, cocklebur, or any other similar growth.

Sec. 93.31. Environmental nuisances prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in person or by its authorized agent, to cause an environmental nuisance or allow or permit an environmental nuisance to exist on any property owned or occupied or under the control of that person.

Sec. 93.32. Littering and dumping

A. It shall be unlawful for a person, firm, or corporation… to cast, throw, sweep, sift, permit or acquiesce in the depositing or scattering…on private property or any place in the city, ashes, rubbish, garbage, litter, trash,refuse or waste of any kind, or other noxious matters, whether liquid or solid; or in such a manner that it may be carried or deposited in whole or in part, by the action of the sun, wind, rain, or snow, so as to be scattered on any of the aforementioned places.
B. This section shall not apply to the deposit of material under a permit authorized by the city or to goods, wares, or merchandise deposited temporarily in the necessary course of trade and removed within two hours after being so deposited.

Sec. 93.33. Maintenance of private property required.

A. No person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of any premises or property shall maintain or keep any nuisance thereon nor shall any such person keep or maintain the premises in a manner causing substantial diminution in the value of other property located in the neighborhood in which the premises are located.
B. It shall be the duty of all persons, firms, or corporations owning or occupying property abutting a public street or alley within the city to remove as soon as practicably possible all refuse, weeds, trash, waste, or litter from the sidewalks, curbing, and to the center line of such street or alleys as are adjacent to or abut the property. Where the property is occupied by others than the owners thereof, the duty above mentioned shall devolve on the owners or the tenant and either may be proceeded against for the violation thereof.
Sec. 93.10. Removal of dead trees.

Whenever the Department of Parks or the Department of Public Works shall condemn a dead or decaying tree on the sidewalks or thoroughfares of the city, and notice is served by either Department on the owner of the lot or property abutting the street or sidewalk where the condemned tree is located, the owner shall within 10 days after notice, respond to the citing agency, & within 30 days of notice, at owner's sole cost, remove the condemned tree from the street or sidewalk...

Sec. 93.12. Weeds in sidewalks or gutters.

It shall be unlawful for the owner or agent of ground fronting any of the public highways of the city to permit any weeds or other vegetable matter to grow or remain in the sidewalk or gutter of the streets in front of his property.…