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July 31, 2012
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<br /> Sec. 58-3. Junk cars, furniture, household furnishings and appliances stored on public or private
<br /> property.
<br /> It is unlawful to park or store any unlicensed, unregistered or inoperable motor vehicle lacking essential
<br /> parts, household furnishings or appliances, or parts or components, on any property, public or private, unless
<br /> housed within a lawfully erected building. Any violation of this section is declared to be a nuisance; and upon
<br /> seven days' written notice to the owner, as shown by the records in the office of the county auditor, of private
<br /> premises on which such material is found, the city may remove the vehicle and certify the cost of such removal as
<br /> any other special assessment. For the purpose of this section, an inoperable motor vehicle shall be defined as
<br /> lacking parts essential to operation, including but not limited to wheels, tires, motor, drive train, battery; or having
<br /> two or more flat tires; or having the interior, including the driver's position, used for storage in such a manner that
<br /> no person can operate the vehicle.
<br /> (Code 1984, § 9.50)
<br /> State Law References: Abandoned motor vehicles, Minn. Stat. ch. 168B.
<br /> Sec. 78-1577. Exterior storage in R districts.
<br /> In all R districts, it is the responsibility of the owner of any property, improved or unimproved, to maintain
<br /> the outdoor areas; including courtyards and the like, of the property and adjacent rights-of-way in a manner that
<br /> complies with the following requirements. All recreational vehicles, mobile homes, camping trailers, motor homes,
<br /> pickup coaches, travel trailers, special mobile equipment, and utility trailers shall meet the requirements of this
<br /> Code. Additionally, all exterior storage must comply with subdivision (6) of this section.
<br /> (1) Definitions:
<br /> a. Blight means a deteriorated condition, something that impairs or destroys.
<br /> b. Junk means any cast-off, damaged, discarded, junked, obsolete, salvage, scrapped,
<br /> unusable, worn-out or wrecked object, thing or material composed in whole or in part of
<br /> asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic, or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, metal,
<br /> paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber, terra cotta, wool, cotton, cloth, canvas, organic
<br /> matter or other substance, regardless of perceived market value or requiring
<br /> reconditioning in order to be used for its original purpose.
<br /> c. Recreational vehicle. Mobile home and recreational vehicle shall mean and include the
<br /> following definitions, and shall not include any manufactured housing unit bearing a State
<br /> of Minnesota manufactured housing seal or certificate, for uses including but not limited
<br /> to those listed below:
<br /> 1. Camping trailer means a folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for
<br /> travel, recreation and vacation uses, also called a pop-up camper.
<br /> 2. Motor home means a portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel,
<br /> recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled
<br /> vehicle.
<br /> 3. Pickup camper means a structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for
<br /> use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.
<br /> 4. Travel trailer means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to
<br /> be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses,
<br /> permanently identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer of the trailer.
<br /> d. Special mobile equipment means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the
<br /> transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a
<br /> highway, including but not limited to: ditch digging equipment, moving dollies, pump
<br /> hoists and other well-drilling equipment, street sweeping vehicles, and other machinery
<br /> such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-
<br /> tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers,
<br /> scarifiers, earth-moving equipment. The term does not include travel trailers, dump
<br /> trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other motor
<br /> vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has
<br /> been attached.
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