1966-014ORDINANCE N0'*�- 66- 14
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING ABANDONED,
NON - OPERATING AND WRECKED VEHICLES.
/'IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
LLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS.
SECTION 1. Definitions. The following definitions shall
apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this Ordinance:
(1) `Person" shall mean any person, firm, partnership,
association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.
(2) "Vehicle" shall mean a machine propelled by power other
than human power designed to travel along the ground by use of
wheels, treads, runners, or slides and transport persons or property
or pull machinery and shall include, without limitation, automobile,
truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy, and wagon.
(3) "Street or highway's shall mean the entire width between
the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any
part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of
vehicular travel.
(4) "Property" shall mean any real property within the Village
which is not a street or highway.
SECTION 2. Abandonment of Vehicles. No person shall abandon
any vehicle within the Village and no person shall leave any
vehicle at any place within the Village for such time and under
such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear
to have been abandoned.
SECTION 3. Leaving of Wrecked, Non - Operating Vehicle on Street.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, non - operating,
wrecked, or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the
Village.
SECTION 4. Disposition of Wrecked or Discarded Vehicles.
No person in charge or control of any property within the Village,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall
allow any partially dismantled, non - operating, wrecked, junked,
or discarded vehicle to remain on such property longer than
hours; and no person shall leave any such vehicle on any property
within the Village for longer time than -� hours; except that
this Ordinance shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an
enclosed building; a vehicle on the premises of a business enter-
prise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to
the operation of such business enterprise; or a vehicle in an
appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful
place and manner by the Village.
SECTION 5. Impounding. The Chief of Police or any member
of his Department designated by him is hereby authorized to
remove or have removed any vehicle left at any place within the
Village which reasonably appears to be in violation of this Ordinance
or lost, stolen, or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded
until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with Chapter
952 Illinois Revised Statutes, 1965, paragraphs 42 -49.
SECTION 6. Penalties. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount
lean than $5,00 or not
not /exceeding $500.00. Each day such violation is committed or
permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and
shall be punishable as such hereunder.
SECTION 7. This Ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, approval and publication
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