§ 4.15.010. Purpose.  


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  • The city council of the city of Council Bluffs makes, finds and declares that the accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles, machinery, trailers, or parts thereof, on private or public property is hereby found to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harbor for rodents and insects, and to be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, or dismantled or inoperative vehicle, or part thereof, on private or public property not including highways, except as expressly hereinafter permitted, is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance, which may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

    (Ord. 5492 § 2 (part), 2000).

(Ord. No. 6355, § 1, 10-22-2018).