Novi, MI Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Novi City Code Sec. 21-74 bars parking, keeping, maintaining or accumulating any inoperable or dismantled motor vehicle or its parts on private premises unless it is screened so it is completely obscured from public places and from neighboring private premises. The duty runs to both the owner of the premises and whoever controls the premises, who must keep the property free of such vehicles, and separately to the owner of the inoperable or dismantled vehicle itself, who must not let it sit on private premises in violation of the section.

Sec. 21-75 declares any violation a public nuisance per se, meaning the city does not have to prove actual harm before a court abates it. Sec. 21-76 gives the enforcing officer a specific path when a violation sits on leased property outside the immediate control of the owner: notice of violation goes by first class mail to the owner's last known address, and the owner then has 10 days either to fix the violation or to give the enforcing officer the name and address of whoever is in immediate control of the premises.

Failing to remedy the violation or respond within that window is itself treated as a separate violation of the division, and the enforcing officer can still issue a violation under Sec. 21-74 directly to the premises owner, the person in control, or the vehicle owner regardless of the notice process. Special purpose vehicles used in farming or licensed commercial and industrial storage are exempted under Sec. 21-73.