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OFFENSES-MISCELLANEOUS § 13-37 required for operation of the vehicle, or on which there are displayed neither valid license plates nor a valid inspection decal. However, these provisions shall not apply to a licensed business which was regularly engaged in business as an automobile dealer, Salvage dealer or scrap processor on June 26, 1970. (b) The owner of any property which is zoned for residential, commercial or agricultural purposes, and upon which any such inoperative vehicle is located, shall shield from view such inoperative vehicle within fifteen (15) calendar days of the date of written notice to the owner delivered to said owner either by personal service, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by posting upon the premises if notice does not reach said owner by either of the foregoing modes of delivery~thereof, which notice shall also inform the owner that if he fails to shield from view the aforesaid vehicle or vehicles, he shall have the duty of removing same from said premises in said fifteen-day period; that in the event that he fails to remove same from said premises, the city, acting through its own agents or employees, may remove any such inoperative motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers from said premises at the expense of said owner. (c) In the event that the city, through its own agents or employees, removes any such motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers from said premises, it shall, within five (5) business days after said removal, give written notice to said owner, delivered to said owner aforesaid, that in the event that said owner does not reclaim the inoperative vehicle within twenty-one (21) days aider the date of said notice upon payment of costs of removal [such an action] may result in the inoperative vehicle being disposed of by the city and that the owner will be liable for the cost of removal and disposal of said inoperative vehicle or vehicles. (d) In the event that any such inoperative vehicle is not reclaimed by the owner, then the city, acting by its own agents or employees, shall dispose of s~me by sale at public auction or otherwise, and the cost of any such removal and disposal shah be chargeable to the owner of the vehicle or premises and may be collected by the city as taxes and levies are collected, and every cost authorized by this section with which the owner of the premises has been assessed shall Constitute a lien against the property from which the vehicle was removed, the lien to continue until actual payment of such costs has been made to the city. (Code 1971, § 11-6; Ord. of 6-23-81, § 11-6; Ord. No. 90-3, 1-9-90; Ord. No. 95-12, §§ 1--4, 12-12-95; Ord. No. 97-14, 7-22-97) Cross references--Penalty for Class i misdemeanor, § 1-11; motor vehicles generally, Ch. 12; zoning ordinance, App. B. State law reference--Authority for above section, Code of Virginia, § 15.1-11.1. Sec. 13-37. Excessive growth of grass, weeds, etc., on vacant property. (a) It shall be the duty of the owner of any parcel of land in the city to cut or cause to be cut all grass, weeds or like vegetative growth which exceeds a height of eighteen (18) inches above the ground and which is deemed by the director of public works to create a potential threat to public health or safety; and it shall be the duty of the owner of any legally established lot Supp. No. 43 803