Brooklyn Park, MN Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Private-property grace period
- 48 hours
- Public property
- No junk/inoperable vehicles allowed at all
- Impound notice
- 10 days' written notice required
- Exceptions
- Enclosed building or licensed business use
- Adopted
- Ord. 2001-948, Feb. 12, 2001
Summary
In the City of Brooklyn Park, abandoning, parking, keeping or storing a junk or inoperable vehicle on public property, or on private property without the owner's consent, is a misdemeanor under § 90.17. Private property owners get only 48 hours before a junk or inoperable vehicle must be moved, enclosed, or impounded under § 90.18.
A person who abandons, parks, keeps, places or stores any junk vehicle or inoperable vehicle on any public, or on any private property without the consent of the person in control of the property is guilty of a misdemeanor. ... (A) ... Inoperable or junk vehicles on public property. No person shall park, keep, place, store or abandon any junk vehicle or inoperable vehicle on a public street, alley, or public property within the city. ... (C) Vehicles on private property. No person in charge or control of any property within the city, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any junk vehicle or inoperable vehicle to be parked, stored, kept, or otherwise placed on property longer than 48 hours.
Full Breakdown
Adopted under Ord. S. Chapter 168B, because the City Council found abandoned and junk vehicles harbor disease and vermin and become a blight and safety hazard. 17 makes it a straight misdemeanor to abandon, park, keep, place or store any junk vehicle or inoperable vehicle on public property, or on private property without the consent of the person in control of it. 18(A) separately bars anyone from parking, keeping, placing, storing or abandoning a junk or inoperable vehicle on a public street, alley or public property at all, and lets the City Manager, a designee, or any contracted peace officer impound it.
18(C) gives private property owners and occupants a 48-hour window: after that, allowing a junk or inoperable vehicle to sit on the property becomes a violation, unless the vehicle is in an enclosed building, is on the premises of an operating business and necessary to it, or is in an approved city storage depository. 18(G) requires the City Manager's designee to give ten days' written notice by mail, posted notice, or personal delivery, describing the vehicle and warning that it will be towed if not moved or stored within ten days. 16.
Violations & Fines
A first violation of § 90.17, abandoning or storing a junk or inoperable vehicle, is a misdemeanor under § 10.99, carrying up to 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine. Before the city impounds a vehicle from private property it must give ten days' written notice under § 90.18(G); after that period the vehicle may be towed and the owner billed for removal and storage before it is released.
Frequently Asked Questions
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