HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 12041984 - 84-64 (2) ORDINANCE NO. 84- 64
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(Abandoned Vehicle Abatement )
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) :
SECTION I_ Section 430-2 . 004 of the County Ordinance Code is
amended,
430_2_004 Authority , findings , nuisance_
(a) Authority. This division is enacted pursuant to
California Vehicle Code Sections 22660 , 22661 , 22662 , 22665 , and
Government Code Section 25845 .
(b) Findings_ The board finds and declares that the accumu-
lation and storge of abandoned , wrecked, dismantled , or inopera-
tive vehicles or parts thereof on private and public property not
including highways creates a condition tending to reduce the value
of private property, to promote blight and deterioraton, to invite
plundering, to create fire hazards , to consititute an attractive
nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors , to
create a harborage for rodents and insects , and to be injurious to
the public health , safety and general welfare.
( c) Nuisance . The presence of an abandoned , wrecked ,
dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof , on private or
public property not including highways , except as expressly
hereinafter permitted , constitutes a public nuisance presenting an
immediate threat to public health and safety which may be abated
as such in accordance with the provisions of this division and
code .
(Ords . 84- 64 519 77-112 . )
SECTION IT . Section 430-6. 008 is added to the Ordinance Code, to
provide for abatement of inoperable vehicles which are incapable
of being towed and valued at less than $200 , to read :
430-6. 008 . Inoperable non-towable Vehicles .
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( a) This chapter ' s notice of intention is. not required for
removal of a vehicle or part thereof which is inoperable due to
the absence of a motor , transmission, or wheels and incapable of
being towed, and is valued at less than two hundred dollars
( $200) by a person specified in the Vehicle Code Section 22855 ,
provided that the property owner has signed a release authorizing
removal and waiving further interest in the vehicle or part
thereof . Prior to final disposition under Vehicle Code Section
22662 of such a low-valued vehicle or part for which evidence of
registration was recovered, the C.H.P. shall provide notice to the
registered and legal owners of intent to dispose of the vehicle or
part , and if the vehicle or part is not claimed and removed within
12 days after the notice is mailed , from a location specified in
Vehicle Code Section 22662 , final disposition may proceed. The
County, C.H.P. or any contractor thereof shall not be liable for
damage caused to a vehicle or part thereof by removal pursuant to
this section.
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(b) This section applies only to inoperable vehicles located
upon a parcel that is (1 ) zoned for agricultural use or ( 2) not
improved with a residential structure containing one or more
dwelling units .
(Ord. 84- 64§2 : Veh.C. 522661 . )
SECTION 111 . EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30
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days alter passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be
published once with the names of supervisors voting for and
against it in the ---Contra Costa Times , a newspaper published
in this County.
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PASSED on —December- 4 , 1984 by the following vote:
AYES : Supervisors Powers , Fanden, Schroder, McPeak, Torlakson
NOES : None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk
of the Board & County Administrator
De uty ` 641 'R. Calhoun
Board Chair
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