§ 30-106. Prohibited activities.

(a)

No person, group of persons, company, firm, corporation or any other entity shall within the unincorporated areas of the county:

(1)

Operate an unlicensed junkyard.

(2)

Store abandoned, unlicensed or inoperative automobiles, trucks, vans, motorcycles, buses, trailers, mobile homes or other motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts or equipment, or inoperative or abandoned farm equipment, construction equipment and such like equipment for a period in excess of three days outside of a building.

(3)

Storing scrap metal, junk, 20 or more tires, or solid waste materials outside of a building for more than three days.

(4)

Store parts of or entire dismantled buildings, fixtures, appliances, fences, for more than three days outside of buildings.

(5)

Leave any dead animal not buried or otherwise legally disposed of for a period of more than three days on the premises.

(6)

Store or dispose of any solid waste or other junk except in accordance with all applicable state and local regulations.

(7)

Leave unattended any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, mobile home, or any other motor vehicle on any public highway or private or public property for more than three days under such circumstances so as to cause the vehicle to reasonably appear to have been abandoned.

a.

If such vehicle is left unattended on the property without permission of the property owner for more than 48 hours, that vehicle may be declared abandoned by any deputy sheriff; and such shall constitute a public nuisance.

b.

Any vehicle so abandoned shall be declared so by the sheriff's department, and that abandoned vehicle may be junked or sold by the county or impounded and the owner or lienholder notified by certified mail, following the dictates of Wis. Stats. § 342.40(3).

c.

If the vehicle is not claimed, the county shall sell the same at auction to the highest bidder unless such bid is deemed inadequate by the county, in which event all bids may be rejected. Such sale shall occur after ten days from the date of notice to the owner and lienholders.

(b)

This article is not intended to regulate or place limitations on any legally licensed junkyard, salvage dealer, sanitary landfill or other junk, waste disposal or storage activity for which a valid license from the state and/or other necessary municipal issuing authority is required and has been issued and all such licenses are in full force and effect.

(Ord. of 12-17-87, §§ 2.1, 2.2)