City of Milwaukee - File #: 961777

• File #: 961777
• Version: 0
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Placed On File
• File created: 3/4/1997
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/16/1997
• Title: An ordinance relating to abandoned motor vehicles and trailers.
• Sponsors: ALD. PAWLINSKI
• Indexes: MOTOR VEHICLES, TOWING OF VEHICLES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/4/1998	0	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
6/4/1998	0	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
6/4/1998	0	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/16/1997	0	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	16:0
12/3/1997	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	3:0
3/13/1997	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: " ---Adds language under abandonment prohibited to include ""the same block""."	Pass	5:0

NUMB:
961777
VERS:
ORIGINAL
REF:

XXBY:
ALD. PAWLINSKI
TITL:
An ordinance relating to abandoned motor vehicles and trailers.
SECS:
105-65-1 am
ANLS:
- Analysis -

The current prohibition against abandoned motor vehicles allows a vehicle to be deemed abandoned and towed if it remains standing on a highway or public property for more than 72 hours after it has been placarded. This ordinance specifies that a vehicle "remains standing" if it remains parked in the same block.
BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 105-65-1 of the code is amended to read:

105-65. Control of Abandoned Motor Vehicles and Trailers. 1. ABANDONMENT PROHIBITED. >>a. In this subsection, "the same block" means the entire area containing addresses on the same street beginning with numbers in the same hundred series.<<

>>b.<< No person shall abandon any motor vehicle or trailer on any highway or public or private property within the city, and no person shall leave any motor vehicle or trailer unattended on such highway or property within the city for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such motor vehicle or trailer reasonably to appear to have been abandoned. Motor vehicles or trailers which are in a condition of disrepair and lack valid registration plates shall be deemed to have been abandoned within the meaning of this section. Whenever any other motor vehicle or trailer has been allowed to remain standing >>in the same block<< on such highway or >>on<< public property in the city for more than 72 hours after a police officer placards the motor vehicle or trailer and 48 hours after mailing of a notice to the last known address of the owner, the same shall be deemed to have been abandoned within the meaning of this section. The notice shall inform the owner of the manner of avoiding a declaration of abandonment, of the means of reclaiming the motor vehicle or trailer should it be de...