Wylie, TX Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Section 110-254 declares that a junked vehicle, including a junked vehicle part, visible from a public place or public right-of-way is detrimental to public safety and welfare, reduces private property values, invites vandalism, creates a fire hazard, endangers minors as an attractive nuisance, produces urban blight, and is therefore a public nuisance. Section 110-255 makes maintaining that nuisance an offense: a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $200.00, and the court must order the vehicle abated and removed upon conviction. Section 110-256 lays out the process the police department or a code enforcement officer follows before that conviction: for a nuisance on private property, the owner and any lienholder get a certified-mail notice of at least ten days stating the nuisance must be removed and that a hearing request must come before the ten days run; the same ten-day notice and hearing right apply to a nuisance on public property or a right-of-way.

The municipal judge hears any requested hearing no earlier than the 11th day after notice, and at that hearing the vehicle is presumed inoperable unless the owner shows otherwise. The city manager, police chief or code enforcement officer may enter private property to identify and remove a qualifying vehicle, and the police department must notify the state department of transportation within five days of removal. A vehicle fully enclosed in a building, or stored in an orderly, screened manner by a licensed dealer, junkyard or vehicle collector, is exempt from these abatement procedures.