Legal Documents of Rockford

In enacting this chapter, the board of commissioners finds and declares that the accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, junked, partially dismantled, or inoperative motor vehicles, on private property, which motor vehicles are in the nature of rubbish and unsightly debris, violates, in many instance detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the community in that such conditions tend to interfere with the enjoyment of and reduce the value of private property; invite plundering, create fire hazards and other safety and health hazards to minors as well as adults, interfere with the comfort and well being of the public and create, extend, and aggravate urban blight, and that the public health, safety, and general welfare require that such conditions be regulated, abated, and prohibited. (1993 Code, § 13-201)