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Sec. 34-167. Authority to enforce article provisions. The city's Director of Planning, and/or his employees shall administer the removal of vehicles or parts of vehicles from property. The City's Director of Planning and/or his employees, or his authorized agent, or any peace officer, may enter upon private property for the purposes specified in this article to examine vehicles or parts of vehicles, obtain information as to the identity of vehicles, and to remove or cause the removal of a vehicle or parts of vehicles declared to be a nuisance pursuant to this article. The municipal court of the city shall have authority to issue all orders necessary to enforce such article. Sec. 34-168. Location or presence within city deemed public nuisance; exceptions. (a) The location or presence of any junked '/ehicle on any lot, tract, parcel of land or portion thereof, occupied or unoccupied, improyed or unimproyed, within the city shall be deemed a public nuisance, and it shall be unlav,ful for any person to cause or maintain such public nnisance by wrecking, dismantling, rendering inoperable, abandoning or discarding his vehicle on the property of another or to suffer, permit or allow such vehicle to be placed, located, maintained or exist upon his o'.vn real property; provided, however that this section shall not apply to a vehicle or part of a vehicle that is: (1) Completely enclosed within a building in a lawful manner '.vhere it is not '/isible from the street or other public or pri'/ate property; or (2) Stored or parked in a lawful manner on priyate property in connection v,'ith the business of a licensed vehicle dealer or junkyard, or that is an antique or special interest vehicle stored by a motor vehicle collector on the collector's property, if the vehicle or part and the outdoor storage area, if any, are: a. Maintained in an orderly manner; b. Not a health hazard; and c. Screened from ordinary public view by appropriate means, including a fence, rapidly growing trees or shrubbery. (b) The relocation of a junked vehicle that is subject to a proceeding for the abatement and removal of said junked vehicle under this Code, does not constitute an abatement of said junked '/ehicle nnisance, proyided that said junked vehicle constitutes a public nuisance at the new location. (a) A junked vehicle, including a part of a junked vehicle, that is located on private or public property, occupied or unoccupied, improved or unimproved, and is visible at any time of the year from a public place, public right-of-way, or private property is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism, creates a fire hazard, is an attractive nuisance Page 2 of5