§ 14-53. Vehicle sale at residential properties.

(a)

City administrator as used herein refers to the city administrator or the designated agent of the administrator.

(b)

Vehicle as used herein means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or street, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracts.

(c)

Residentially occupied property as referred to herein means any tract of property, regardless of zoning and platting, on which is located a structure occupied as a residence for one or more persons.

(d)

Maintain and offer for sale as used herein means to offer by advertisement, sign or oral statement the sale of a vehicle then maintained or garaged, even temporarily, on a residentially occupied property. A person shall be deemed to maintain and offer for sale a vehicle irrespective of the absence of an ownership interest in the vehicle if the person allows another to maintain and offer for sale a vehicle on the person's residentially occupied property.

(e)

It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain and offer for sale more than one (1) vehicle at any time from a residentially occupied property.

(f)

It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain and offer for sale more than two (2) vehicles in any calendar year from the same residentially occupied property.

(g)

Any person determined to have violated the provisions of this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to punishment as set forth in section 1-9 of this Code of Ordinances.

(Ord. No. 84-07, § 1, 12-4-07)