In Hamilton County's unincorporated townships, a township board may order removal of a junk motor vehicle under ORC 505.871, and abandoned junk vehicles are defined and handled under ORC 4513.63. A junk vehicle is one three model years old or older, apparently inoperable, and extensively damaged.
State law, not a county ordinance, governs abandoned and junk vehicles. Under ORC 505.871 a township board of trustees may, by resolution, order removal of a junk motor vehicle in unincorporated territory; on private property removal requires fourteen days' written notice, and costs can become a tax lien on the land. ORC 4513.63 lets the Sheriff or police photograph and record an abandoned junk vehicle. The Hamilton County Sheriff serves the unincorporated townships and handles these complaints; incorporated cities apply their own nuisance-vehicle codes.
The township may remove the vehicle and enter removal costs on the tax duplicate as a lien on the land under ORC 505.871. Private-property removal requires 14 days' prior written notice.
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