Chapter 10.01 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sections:

10.01.010 - Definitions.#

For purposes of this title, the following terms are defined:

"Driveway" means any path used primarily for vehicles, leading from a street or road to a garage or house.

"Enforcement official" has the same definition as that in Section 8.14.100 of this code.

"Impound" means the towing and/or storing of a vehicle by a wrecker service as authorized by the city, or other lawful transport of a vehicle by the police department for temporary storage.

"Impoundment charges" includes costs for both towing and storing of the inoperable vehicle, and administrative impound fees.

"Inoperable vehicle" means a vehicle to which any of the following apply: 1.

For a period of at least thirty (30) consecutive days:

a.

The engine, wheels, tires, or other parts are removed;

b.

The engine, wheels, tires or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power; or

c.

The vehicle has one or more flat tires, has one or more missing windshield or window, or has one or more windshield or window broken to the extent that visibility is limited so as to make driving the vehicle unsafe;

2.

The vehicle is currently incapable of being registered, and for a period of one year either registration has not been obtained by the owner, or registration has been expired for longer than one year; or

3.

The vehicle is a junked, wrecked, or salvaged vehicle.

"Large vehicle" means a motor vehicle or other equipment that exceeds thirty-five (35) feet in total length or has more than nine wheels which touch the ground or exceeds a gross vehicle weight of thirty thousand (30,000) pounds.

"Owner" means the registered owner or owners of a vehicle as recorded with the Utah Department of Motor Vehicles or a similar agency outside the state of Utah. Where written notice is required under this chapter, notice shall be given to each registered owner.

"Public property" means any real property owned or managed by any governmental entity within the municipal limits of the city, such as highways, alleys, rights-of-way, and streets, or any property open to the public for use.

"Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular unit primarily designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation use, which is either self-propelled or is mounted on or pulled by another vehicle.

"Residential street, highway or road" means all roads or portions of roads within residential zoning districts but shall not include the following: 1.

300 East and 500 East north of 2700 South;

2.

West Temple;

3.

1100 West;

4.

2100 South;

5.

2700 South;

6.

3300 South;

7.

400 East between 2100 South and Haven Avenue;

8.

Wentworth Avenue between 400 East and 500 East; and

9.

I-80;

10.

3900 South.

"Trailer" means any object designed to be towed or pulled behind a vehicle, and designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners, or slides. "Trailer" includes semi-trailers.

"Vehicle" means any device, in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, propelled by a power other than human power, and designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides. "Vehicle" includes, without limitation, automobiles, trucks, recreational vehicles, buses, motorcycles, tractors, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. "Vehicle" includes any of the above devices regardless of its source of power, including but not limited to, electric, gas or fuel-powered engines.

"Vehicle parts" means any component of a vehicle, including a vehicle frame, or any component which would normally be affixed, glued, or otherwise attached to or a part of a vehicle or its frame. It also includes pieces of any such component.

(Ord. No. 2019-04, § I, 4-3-2019)