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Title 13 : Property Maintenance Regulations
Chapter 3 : Junked Motor Vehicles

13-301 : Definitions.

  1. "Abandoned vehicle" is such as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 55-16-103.
  2. A "disabled or junked vehicle" means any motor vehicle, the condition of which is any one (1) or more of the following: damaged or defective in any one (1) or combination of the following ways to indicate that the vehicle cannot be safely operated upon the streets and highways under its own power:
    1. Broken or cracked windshield;
    2. Missing tires or missing or partially disassembled tires and wheels;
    3. Missing or totally disassembled essential part or parts;
    4. Extensive exterior body damage or missing or partially or totally disassembled exterior body parts essential to the reasonably safe operation of the motor vehicle, such as, but not limited to fenders, doors, engine hood, bumper or bumpers;
    5. Missing or partially or totally disassembled interior parts essential to the reasonably safe operation of the motor vehicle, such as but not limited to, driver's seat, steering wheel, clutch, brake, gear shift lever or instrument panel;
    6. Missing or partially or totally disassembled other parts essential to the starting of vehicle under its own power, such as, but not limited to, starter, generator, alternator, battery, distributor, gas tank, radiator, spark plugs, carburetor, fuel injection system;
    7. The interior is a container for metal, glass, paper, rags, wood, machinery, parts, cloth or other waste or discarded materials in one or any combination of such materials in such quantity and arrangement that the vehicle cannot be reasonably or safely operated upon the streets and highways;
    8. Lying on the ground (upside down, on its side, or at other extreme angle), sitting on block or suspended in the air by any other method;
    9. General environment in which the vehicle sits, including, but not limited to, vegetation that has grown up around, in or through the vehicle, the collection of pools of water in the vehicle, and the accumulation of other garbage or debris around the vehicle;
    10. Without registration plates; and/or
    11. With expired registration plates.
  3. "Motor vehicle," for all purposes hereunder, is defined as any vehicle which is self-propelled and any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported from one location to another excepting devices moved only by human power.
  4. "Private property" means any real property within the city which is privately owned and which is not public property. (Ord. #2004-02, June 2004)