§ 50-32. Findings; declaration of public nuisance.  


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  • The city council, after thorough investigation and based upon past experience and present conditions, finds and hereby declares that junked vehicles which are located in any place where they are visible from a public place or public right-of-way are detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tending to reduce the value of the private property, to invite vandalism, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and are detrimental to the economic welfare of the city by producing urban blight which is adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the city and such vehicles so located are, therefore, declared to be a public nuisance.

(Code 1973, § 10-12; Ord. No. 1302, § 1, 6-12-86)