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Home My WebLink About1985-11 06-10 CCO a CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on the 10th of June 1985 at 7:30 at the City Hall, 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway, to consider an amendment to Chapter 19 Relating to the Regulating, the Operating, Parking, Storing, Repairing, Servicing, and Maintaining of Vehicles. ORDINANCE NO. 85 -11 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REGULATING, THE OPERATING, PARKING, STORING, REPAIRING, SERVICING, AND MAINTAINING OF [JUNK] VEHICLES THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 19 -1301 through Section 19 -1307 of the City Ordinances is hereby amended in the following manner: Section 19- 1301. INTENT AND CONSTRUCTION. The collection of unused and unusable motor vehicle bodies, parts, engines and related accessories having become a common occurrence in the community, and such collection having become a source of danger to the physical and mental well being of children and adults within the community, and such collection having become a source of concern and complaint by citizens of the community, this [Junk] Vehicle Ordinance is enacted for the purpose of prohibiting the collection and maintaining of such motor vehicle bodies, parts, engines and related accessories. Section 19- 1302. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of Section 19 -1301 through 19 -1307 inclusive, the following words and terms [wherever they occur in this ordinance] are defined as follows: a. PERSON. Person means any natural person, firm, association, partnership or corporation, and agent of any of the afore -said, except duly licensed New and Used Car Dealers, while engaged in the operation of their business. b. [JUNK] VEHICLE: [Within the context of Section 19 -1301, Junk] Vehicle means any motor vehicle which is not properly licensed for operation within the State of Minnesota by the State of Minnesota, or not properly licensed by any other state for operation within that state, or which is not in operable condition, or which is partially dismantled, or which is used for sale of parts, or as a source of repair or replacement parts for other vehicles, or which is kept for scrapping, dismantling, or salvage of any kind. Section 19 -1303• PARKING AND STORAGE. With the exception: of appropriately licensed pioneer, classic, or collector vehicles as defined in Minnesota Statutes Section 16$.10 no person shall park, keep, place or store, or permit the parking or storage of a junk] Vehicle on a public street or alley or on any private lands or premises which he owns, occupies, or controls unless the junk] vehicle shall be within a building on such premises. Appropriately licensed but, inoperable pioneer, classic, or collector vehicles as defined by Minnesota Statutes Section 168.10 may be stored on the owner's property provided that such vehicles are screened from public view by means of a six foot opaque fence. ORDINANCE NO. 85 -11 Section 19 -1304. STORAGE OF PARTS, ENGINES, AND RELATED ACCESSORIES. No person shall store or keep parts, engines and related accessories on a public street or alley or on any private lands or premises which he owns, occupies, or controls, unless such parts, engines, and related accessories are kept or stored within a building. Section 19 -1305. CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to permit any act prohibited by any other ordinance, statute, or rule of law. Section 19 -1306. SEPARABILITY. Should any section, subdivision`, clause, or other provision of this ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the ordinances as a whole nor of any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid. Section 19 -1307. PENALTY. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred ($700) dollars or imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days or both, together with costs of prosecution. Section 2. This ordinance shall be effective after adoption and thirty (30) days following its legal publication. Adopted this 10th day of June 1985 Fdypr/, ATTEST: i Clerk Date of Publication May 16, 1985 Effective Date June 15, 1985 Brackets indicate matter to be deleted, underline indicates new matter.)