HomeMy WebLinkAbout0099_0004vehicles or parts, or the City may transfer such vehicles or parts to
another, provided such disposal shall be only as scrap or salvage,
consistent with Section 10, Subdivision C of the Texas Abandoned
Motor Vehicle Act.
(j) Authority to Enforce
(1) The Building Official of the City of Georgetown shall
have full responsibility for administration of this Ordinance by its
regular salaried, full time employees, except that the removal of junked
motor vehicles or parts thereof from property may be by any other duly
authorized person.
(2) The. Building Official of the City of Georgetown or any
of his duly authorized employees or agents are authorized to administer
the provisions of this Ordinance and they are hereby given authority to
enter upon private property for the purposes specified in the Ordinance
to examine vehicles or parts thereof, obtain information as to the
identity of vehicles and remove or cause the removal of a motor vehicle
or parts thereof declared to be a nuisance pursuant to the procedures
of this Ordinance. The Municipal Court and the Housing Board of
Adjustments and Appeals of the City of Georgetown enacting such procedures
of the Ordinance as provided herein, shall have authority to issue all
orders necessary to enforce such procedures of the Ordinance.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to affect
statutes that permit immediate removal of a motor vehicle left on public
property which constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(k) Penalty
(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in
Municipal Court shall be subject to a fine of not more than Two Hundred
($200.00) Dollars.
(A) Each transaction in violation of any of the provisions
hereof shall be deemed a separate offense.
(B) Each day a public nuisance is allowed to continue
after it has been duly determined to be such, shall constitute a separate
violation.
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