Blaine, MN Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Chapter 34, Article VI, "Junk Salvage Facilities and Junkyards," opens with definitions in § 34-140: a junk vehicle is any vehicle, motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer under M.S.A. § 169.11 that is not operable, any vehicle meeting the state's abandoned-vehicle definition in M.S.A. § 168B.011, or any vehicle not properly licensed for operation on public highways in the state. Division 1's operative rule, § 34-141, then bans anyone from parking, keeping, placing or storing such a vehicle, a stock car, a racing car, or junk, refuse, yard waste or recyclable material on public lands, streets or alleys, or on private land, unless it is kept inside an enclosed garage or storage building.

Section 34-142 extends the same enclosure requirement to repair work: no one may service, repair, replace parts on, or maintain a stock car, racing car or junk vehicle on public land or streets, or on private land, unless the work happens inside an enclosed garage or storage building. Keeping two or more junk vehicles, or ten or more pieces of junk, on one property crosses into "motor vehicle salvage facility or junkyard" territory under § 34-140, which triggers Division 2's separate licensing, fencing and site-management requirements rather than the simple storage ban.

A single stored junk vehicle also independently qualifies as a declared public nuisance under § 34-108(1), so it can trigger the notice-and-abatement process in §§ 34-109 through 34-113 on top of any Article VI enforcement.