Legal Documents of Sweetwater

For the purpose of the interpretation and application of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the indicated meanings:

1. "Person" shall mean any natural person, or any firm, partnership, association, corporation or other organization of any kind and description.
2. "Private property" shall include all property that is not public property, regardless of how the property is zoned or used.
3. "Traveled portion of any public street or highway" shall mean the width of the street from curb to curb, or where there are no curbs, the entire width of the paved portion of the street, or where the street is unpaved, the entire width of the street in which vehicles ordinarily use for travel.
4. 1. "Vehicle" shall mean any machine propelled by power other than human power, designed to travel along the ground by the use of wheels, treads, self-laying tracks, runners, slides or skids, including but not limited to automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor scooters, go-carts, campers, tractors, trailers, tractor-trailers, buggies, wagons, and earth-moving equipment, and any part of the same.
   2. "Junk vehicle" shall mean a vehicle of any age that is damaged or defective in any one or combination of any of the following ways that either makes the vehicle immediately inoperable, or would prohibit the vehicle from being operated in a reasonably safe manner upon the public streets and highways under its own power if self-propelled, or while being towed or pushed, if not self-propelled.
      1. Flat tires, missing tires, missing wheels, or missing or partially or totally disassembled tires and wheels;
      2. Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled essential part or parts of the vehicle's drive train, including, but not limited to, engine, transmission, clutch, transaxle, drive shaft, differential, or axle.
      3. Extensive exterior body damage or missing or partially or totally disassembled essential body parts, including, but not limited to, fenders, doors, engine hood, bumper or bumpers, windshield, or windows.
      4. Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled essential interior parts, including, but not limited to, driver's seat, steering wheel, instrument panel, clutch pedal, brake pedal, gear shift lever.
      5. Missing inoperative or partially or totally disassembled parts essential to the starting or running of the vehicle under its own power, including, but not limited to, starter, generator or alternator, battery, distributor, gas tank, carburetor or fuel injection system, spark plugs, brakes or radiator.
      6. Interior is a container for metal, glass, paper, rags or other cloth, wood, auto parts, machinery, waste or discarded materials in such quantity, quality and arrangement that a driver cannot be properly seated in the vehicle;
      7. 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;
      8. 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.