§ 12-63. Junked vehicles a public nuisance.  


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  • Section 683.072, Tex. Trans. Code, declares that a junked vehicle, including a part of a junked vehicle, that is visible at any time of the year from a public place or public right-of-way, is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism, creates fire hazards, is an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, and produces urban blight adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the city, and is a public nuisance. The city council hereby adopts such findings and declarations, and declares that junked vehicles are a public nuisance.

(Ord. No. 2006-19, § 3, 11-13-2006)