4-7-3: DEFINITIONS:

ABANDON: To leave a vehicle on private property without the permission of the person having rights to the possession of the property, or on a highway, street, alley, road or other property open to the public for the purposes of vehicular traffic or parking, or upon or within the right-of-way of any highway, street, alley or road for twenty four (24) hours or longer.

ABANDONED VEHICLE: Any vehicle observed by a City law enforcement officer or reported by a member of the public to have been left within the limits of any highway, street, alley, road or right-of-way thereof, or upon the property of another without the consent of the property owner for a period of twenty four (24) hours or longer, except that a vehicle shall not be considered abandoned if its owner-operator is unable to remove it from the place where it is located and has notified a law enforcement agency and requested assistance.

JUNK VEHICLE: Any vehicle which:

   A.   Does not meet the vehicle equipment standards of chapter 9, title 49, of the Idaho Code as result of damage or neglect, unless the vehicle is driven on the City streets and roadways on a regular basis; and

   B.   Is not in the current process of being restored or repaired by its owner(s).

(Comment: This is a distinct and separate classification from abandoned vehicle. Abandoned vehicles are vehicles belonging to one person and left on the property of another person or political subdivision. Junk vehicles fail to conform to vehicle equipment standards and are not in the process of repair and restoration. One way a violation of section 4-7-5-1 of this chapter occurs is where a junk vehicle is left by its owner on property of the vehicle owner.)

REFUSE: Undesirable matter including, but not limited to: all waste wood, tree trimmings, grass cuttings, dead plants, weeds, leaves, dead trees, chips, shavings, sawdust, printed matter, paper, used and discarded articles of clothing, combustible waste, pulp, boxes and packaging materials, glass, ashes, construction debris, garbage, stable matter, junk or badly weathered building materials not currently in use, stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, furniture, mattresses, scrap metals, car parts, tires and junk vehicles. For the purposes of violations of this Code, "refuse" as defined herein includes the terms "garbage" and "rubbish" as defined in section 4-2-2 of this title.

UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLE: Any vehicle parked or otherwise left on private property without the consent of the person owning or controlling that property. (Ord. 247, 7-19-1994; amd. Ord. 743, 11-17-2015)