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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', 'Art. 7', '§ 107', '§ 107']

Town of Yarmouth, MA Junk Vehicles
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Ch 107 Junk Vehicles
§ 107-1 Title.
§ 107-2 Intent.
§ 107-3 Definitions and word usage.
§ 107-4 Open storage.
§ 107-5 Permit required; application; acceptable storage; issuance.
§ 107-6 Abandonment and storage.
§ 107-7 Violations and penalties.
§ 107-8 Injunctive relief.
§ 107-9 Removal.
§ 107-10 Inspections.
§ 107-11 Construal of provisions.
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Town of Yarmouth, MA / Division 1: Bylaws / Part II: General Legislation
Chapter 107 Junk Vehicles
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Special Town Meeting of the Town of Yarmouth 8-30-1989 by Art. 7. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Junk dealers — See Ch. 94.
Unregistered vehicles — See Ch. 138.
This chapter shall be known as the "Junk Vehicle Law of the Town of Yarmouth."
A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is declared to be of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants, and such an environment is deemed essential to the economy of the Town and the general welfare of its citizens. The unrestrained accumulation of motor vehicles not in operating condition is a hazard to such health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Town, necessitating the regulation and restraint thereof.
The Building Inspector of the Town and/or police officers of the Town, unless the Selectmen, by resolution, designate some other Town officer as enforcement officer or, by resolution, establish the position of enforcement officer for the Town and appoint some qualified person thereto at a salary specified in such resolution.
Any motor vehicle, whether automobile, bus, truck, tractor, mobile home, motorcycle, motor bicycle, minibicycle or snowmobile, or any other contraption originally intended for travel on the public highways, which is abandoned, stored, left or located by its owner or any other person on public or private property in the Town of Yarmouth.
Any motor vehicle which is not registered by the State of Massachusetts for operation on the public highways and which has not been registered for the preceding 12 months or is not in a condition to meet the requirements for the Massachusetts vehicle inspection sticker shall be defined as a junk vehicle.
For the purposes of this chapter, a motor vehicle registered as a farm vehicle or which is operable and used by the owner on his own property for the transport of wood, snowplowing or similar uses shall not be considered a junk vehicle.
For the purposes of this chapter "abandoned," "stored" or "located" shall mean when the junk vehicle is visible from a public highway or a dwelling unit on a neighboring property.
A person owning real property in the Town. A parcel of real property owned by more than one person shall be considered as having each such person be an owner.
Real property appearing on the tax rolls of the Town as one unit.
The Town of Yarmouth and its officers and agents; also public and private areas within the Town.
The term "shall" is always mandatory. Words used in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
Open storage of one or more junk vehicles shall not be permitted on private or public property within the Town, except as permitted by this chapter.
Any person wishing to store or locate a junk vehicle on a parcel of property must first obtain a permit from the Town's enforcement officer allowing such storage.
That permit may be granted after an application has been made showing:
The purpose(s) for which the junk vehicle(s) is being stored or located.
Purposes for which junk vehicles can be stored or located are as follows:
Antique or classic car restoration for vehicles 25 or more years old. A permit will be issued on an annual basis, renewable for a year at a time.
Restoration. A permit will be issued for a one-year period, renewable for an additional one-year period. The renewal shall be granted only if the junk vehicle has been substantially improved since the issuance of the original permit. "Substantially improved" shall mean that the vehicle meets 50% of the standards for highway use, i.e., a license inspection sticker.
A permit for a commercial garage will be issued to an applicant who is registered with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a motor vehicle repair shop and whose parcel of property upon which the junk vehicles are to be stored is in an area designated as a commercial district pursuant to the Town Zoning Bylaw or who has a special permit issued by the Town Zoning Board of Appeals to operate a motor vehicle repair shop in any other district, or who has a nonconforming use which predated the adoption of the Town Zoning Bylaw.
Permits shall not be granted under this chapter for dealers in secondhand junk and auto parts. Such dealers must comply with the state law licensing and regulating dealers in secondhand junk and auto parts activities and businesses.
Any owner or legal occupant of a parcel of property in the Town who shall abandon, store, locate, leave or allow or condone any other person to abandon, store, locate or leave a junk vehicle upon a parcel of property owned or occupied by him with said Town, hereof. Any person, whether as owner or driver of a vehicle or an operator of a towing vehicle or carrier, who shall abandon, store of shall be guilty of a violation based, hereof.[1]
Editor's Note: So in original
A violation of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine of up to $300 for each violation. A violation of this chapter shall also subject the violator to a civil penalty of $300 for each violation, less any criminal monetary fine which may have been imposed. Each junk vehicle abandoned, stored, left or located in violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate violation. Each week of a continuous violation shall constitute a separate and distinct violation.
In addition to the penalties set forth above, the Town may commence an action in its own name against any person in any civil court of competent jurisdiction to seek an injunction to enforce compliance with this chapter. Such an action for injunctive relief may be independent of or a part of an action to collect the civil penalties as hereinabove provided.
In addition to any penalty or fine as provided in § 107-7 hereof or the remedy provided in § 107-8 hereof, any junk vehicle may be removed from the premises upon which it is located by the Town in the manner hereinafter, provided that:
The enforcement officer, upon detecting a junk vehicle, shall serve written notice on the person owning the parcel of property on which the same is located, ordering such person to remove the same or cause the same to be removed therefrom within 30 days of the date of such service. Such notice shall contain a description of the parcel of property, a statement as to the location thereon of a junk vehicle and a reference to this chapter and to the fact that the location of such junk vehicle on such parcel of property is in violation of this chapter. If such parcel of property is owned by more than one person, personal service on any one of such owners shall suffice; however, as to any owner not personally served with such notice, or if no owner can be located upon whom to make personal service, the enforcement officer shall mail such notice to owners not personally served or to the owner and to all owners if no owner was personally served by registered mail to their or his last known address as shown on the latest completed assessment roll of the Town. In addition, the enforcement officer shall post conspicuously a copy of such notice on the parcel of property upon which said junk vehicle is located.
At the expiration of 30 days after the service or mailing and posting of such notice, if such junk vehicle has not been removed, the enforcement officer shall report such fact to the Selectmen, in writing. Such report shall cite the violation, the notices given as required hereunder and the failure to comply therewith and may include or refer to photographs of such junk vehicle and of the parcel of property upon which it is located. The Selectmen shall thereafter hold a public hearing on 10 days' prior notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. Such notice of hearing shall include a statement that the purpose of the hearing is to give the person owning such junk vehicle an opportunity to be heard as to why the same has not been removed.
After the hearing, the Selectmen may contract for the removal of such junk vehicle. Any expense to the Town in accomplishing the removal of such junk vehicle may be assessed by the Selectmen on the real property from which said junk vehicle was removed, and the expense so assessed shall constitute a lien and charge upon the real property on which it is levied until paid or otherwise satisfied or discharged as other Town charges.
The Town's enforcement officer shall have and is hereby given the authority to go upon any parcel of real property in the Town, public or private, exclusive of enclosed structures or buildings, at any time during daylight hours, to examine and inspect any vehicles or parts or components thereof to determine whether a violation of this chapter has been committed or to determine the condition of any vehicle or parts or components thereof. The officer shall notify the property owner, in writing, prior to entering on such property.
Nothing herein contained shall be interpreted as amending or abrogating the effect or provisions of the Zoning Bylaw or the Junkyard Bylaw[1] of the Town of Yarmouth or any amendments to such bylaws.
Editor's Note: See Ch. 94, Junk Dealers.