NUMB:
981744
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:
XXBY:
Ald. Murphy and Hines
TITL:
An ordinance relating to nuisance vehicles.
SECS:
80-49-1 rc
80-49-2-a rn
80-49-2-a cr
80-49-2-b rn
80-49-2-b cr
80-49-2-c rn
80-49-2-c cr
80-49-2-d rn
80-49-3-a am
80-49-3-c am
80-49-3.5 cr
80-49-4-0 am
80-49-4-b-5 am
80-49-4-e cr
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This ordinance expands the conditions that allow a motor vehicle to be condemned. Existing regulations allow the commissioners of health or neighborhood services to condemn a vehicle on private premises if it is a health or safety hazard. The ordinance adds authority to condemn a "junk motor vehicle" or any vehicle that is a threat to the public welfare. The ordinance specifies that an owner who does not request a hearing on condemnation of a vehicle waives his or her right to assert that the vehicle did not meet the ordinance's criteria for removal of a vehicle.
BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 80-49-1 of the code is repealed and recreated to read:
80-49. Nuisance Vehicles. 1. PURPOSE. Damaged, partially dismantled or junk motor vehicles upon private premises, except where permitted by a valid occupancy permit, constitute an eyesore and tend to depreciate property values contrary to the public welfare. Whenever such vehicles are junk motor vehicles or are partially dismantled, are unsafely elevated, are parked on unapproved surfaces or are rendered favorable to the harborage of rodents and insects, they may create a health or safety hazard or create a threat to the public welfare and as such constitute a public nuisance.
Part 2. Section 80-49-2-a to d of the code is renumbered 80-49-2-d to g.
Part 3. Section 80-49-2-a to c of the code is created to read:
2. DEFINITIONS.
a. "Inoperable" means a motor vehicle that is incapable of being propelled under its own power including, but not limited to, a motor vehicle meeting any...
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