Milton, WI Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Section 50-154 of the Milton Code of Ordinances prohibits storing or allowing to remain in the open, on either public or private property within the city, any disassembled, inoperable, unlicensed, junked or wrecked motor vehicle for more than three days. The exception is a vehicle connected to an automotive sales or repair business in a properly zoned area, which must screen the vehicle from public view with a fence or approved screen plantings, or a vehicle used seasonally by an industrial enterprise, which can stay unlicensed for up to nine months.

When the building inspector or police department finds a violating vehicle on public property, the city has it removed to a junkyard or salvage yard, which stores it for 30 days and then disposes of it if the owner does not reclaim it and pay a reasonable handling and storage fee. On private property, the city first sends the owner written notice to remove the vehicle immediately; if it is not gone within three days of that notice, the police issue a citation. A citizen can also trigger this process by filing a written complaint with the city clerk, who sends the same three-day removal notice.

04(4) and cross-references the separate traffic and vehicles chapter, Chapter 70, plus Wisconsin's junk vehicle statute, Wis. 01(25g), and the notice-to-state requirement in Wis. 34. The Code does not print a specific forfeiture amount inside Section 50-154, so a citation for violating it falls back on the Code's general penalty schedule in Section 1-14.