Legislative findings and declaration.
1. The Legislature finds that:
(a) Abandoned vehicles constitute a safety hazard and a public nuisance and are detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the general public.
(b) Such vehicles produce scenic blight which degrades the environment and adversely affects the proper maintenance and continuing development of the State.
(c) Such vehicles represent a resource out of place, requiring state and local governmental attention in order to ensure their expeditious removal and recycling.
2. The Legislature declares that the policy of this State is:
(a) To prohibit the abandonment of vehicles and to enforce such prohibition with adequate penalties.
(b) To encourage the development of procedures and operational techniques which will facilitate the expeditious removal of abandoned vehicles from public and private premises.
(c) To encourage state and local governmental units, in cooperation with the private sector to recover the resource represented by abandoned vehicles to the fullest extent practicable.
Last modified: February 25, 2006