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ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO JUNKED VEHICLES, DEFINING TERMS, DECLARING JUNKE D VEHICLES A PUBLIC NUISANCE, PROVIDING FOR NOTICE TO ABATE SUCH PUBLIC NUISANCE; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSAL OF JUNKED VEHICLES TO DEMOLISHERS; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED IN ANY SUM NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00); CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND. PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS Section 1. Definitions. Whenever the following terms are used in this article they shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this section: JUNKED VEHICLE. Means any motor vehicle as defined in Section 1, of Article 6701d-11, Verno n's Texas Civil Statutes, as amended, which: (a) is inoperative and which does not have lawfully affixed thereto both an unexpired license plate or plates and a valid motor vehicle safety inspection certificate and which is wrecked; dismantled; partially dis- mantled; or discarded; or (b) remains inoperable for a continuous period of more than 120 days. PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind. DEMOLISHER. Any person whose business is to convert a motor vehicle into processed scrap or scrap metal, or otherwise to wreck or dismantle motor vehicles. Section 2. Location or Presence of Junked Vehicles Within City Deemed Public Nuisance: Exceptions. The location or presence of any junked vehicle or junked vehicles on any lot, tract, parcel of land or portion thereof, occupied or unoccupied, improved or unimproved, within the City of La Porte shall be deemed a public nuisance and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to cause or maintain such public nuisance by wrecking, dismantling, rendering inoperable, abandoning or discarding his or their vehicle or vehicles on the property C ~ ~.