The open accumulation and storage of a discarded vehicle is hereby found to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight, deterioration and unsightliness, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harborage for rodents and insects and to be injurious to the health, safety, and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of a discarded vehicle on private or public property is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance, which may be abated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. [Ord. 919 § 2, 2016; Ord. 888 § 2, 2015; Ord. 748 § 2.]