Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 18, 2004 07:32 AM
Not the same at all. Abandoned car statutes are generally applied to cars that (as you say):
1) Are on public property, i.e., parked on the side of the road, or on someone else's property, such as a mall parking lot. [Leave *your* stuff on someone else's property, they have the right to remove it.]
2) Aren't used. Either truly abandoned or are not registered. [And you can simply get the registration for it or put it in long term storage to get out of this.]
3) In bad condition. [Leave an obvious junker sitting out, and people will assume you don't want it, but they won't take it from your property unless it is a nuisance in some way.]
Abandoned car statutes normally (there are probably exceptions, but I'm not going to bother getting on Westlaw to look up all the city statutes) not applied to cars sitting in someone's private property.
However, there may be eyesore laws or attractive nuisance laws that might affect a junked car on someone's property. But that's a little different and in those cases, the owner can still keep the car provided it is either out of sight or housed in a garage. But these statutes aren't about how old something is, but about the way it affects others. A brand new Cadillac could be an eyesore if you uglied it up even more.
If the statutes were the way you describe:
So you actually have the right of ownership on that car for a limited time.
There would be no market for antique cars, like the Model T parades you sometimes see in the summer.
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Re:Limited ownership of cars
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 18, 2004 07:32 AM1) Are on public property, i.e., parked on the side of the road, or on someone else's property, such as a mall parking lot. [Leave *your* stuff on someone else's property, they have the right to remove it.]
2) Aren't used. Either truly abandoned or are not registered. [And you can simply get the registration for it or put it in long term storage to get out of this.]
3) In bad condition. [Leave an obvious junker sitting out, and people will assume you don't want it, but they won't take it from your property unless it is a nuisance in some way.]
Abandoned car statutes normally (there are probably exceptions, but I'm not going to bother getting on Westlaw to look up all the city statutes) not applied to cars sitting in someone's private property.
However, there may be eyesore laws or attractive nuisance laws that might affect a junked car on someone's property. But that's a little different and in those cases, the owner can still keep the car provided it is either out of sight or housed in a garage. But these statutes aren't about how old something is, but about the way it affects others. A brand new Cadillac could be an eyesore if you uglied it up even more.
If the statutes were the way you describe:
So you actually have the right of ownership on that car for a limited time.
There would be no market for antique cars, like the Model T parades you sometimes see in the summer.
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