Medina, OH Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

11, enacted by Ordinance 193-99 in 1999, prohibits any person, firm or corporation from storing or permitting the storage of an unlicensed or disabled vehicle on any lot or land within the Municipality for more than fifteen days unless it is kept inside a completely enclosed building or garage. The section defines a "disabled vehicle" as any motor vehicle incapable of being operated or propelled by its own power. The fifteen-day clock starts running from the date the property owner or possessor is notified in writing by the Chief Building Official, the official's agent, the Police Department, or the Police Department's agents that the vehicle is being stored in violation of the section, meaning enforcement is complaint- or inspection-driven rather than automatic.

C. 11 instead targets vehicles kept in the open with the property owner's knowledge, closing the gap those state-tracking sections leave for a car simply sitting unlicensed or broken down in a yard or driveway.