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Manalapan Township City Zoning Code

§ 95-7.39

Disabled and junked motor vehicles. 1

A. 
No person shall park, store, leave or permit the parking, storing or leaving of more than one temporarily disabled motor vehicle, as defined hereinafter, or any motor vehicle of any kind which is in an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, inoperative, rusted, junked or partially dismantled condition, whether attended or not, upon any public or private property in the Township of Manalapan. A "temporarily disabled motor vehicle" is defined as a motor vehicle under N.J.S.A. 39:1-1 et seq. which is inoperative for a period not exceeding 72 hours, and which vehicle has a current registration and a current vehicle inspection certificate under the laws of the State of New Jersey. Nothing contained herein shall apply to any motor vehicle enclosed within a building on private or public property, any motor vehicle held in connection with a business enterprise licensed by the Township and property existing in the appropriate zoning district for such business, farm equipment or not more than four motor vehicles retained by the owner solely for the purpose of antique collection purposes. An "antique motor vehicle" shall be defined as those motor vehicles specifically set forth in the Official Vehicle Classification of the Antique Automobile Club of America, Inc., adopted December 1951, revised 1983 and as may be further amended.
B. 
It is hereby determined that the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, inoperative, rusted, junked or partially dismantled vehicle or parts thereof on private or public property is hereby declared a public nuisance which may be abated in accordance with other applicable ordinances of the Township of Manalapan, in addition to being a violation of this chapter. For purposes of this subsection, "junked motor vehicle" is defined as a motor vehicle under N.J.S.A. 39:1-1 et seq. which does not have a current registration and a current motor vehicle safety inspection certificate and the condition of which is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperable, abandoned or discarded.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 132, Junkyards.