Officials in the Town of Bourbon are currently in the process of reviewing the existing junk vehicle ordinance.
Town Attorney Anthony Wagner shared that council members are in the preliminary stages of looking over the ordinance in order to potentially make some changes that would provide clarity for residents and the police officers who enforce the rules.
Members are apparently hoping to make the distinction between residents who are in the process of fixing a vehicle or getting it plated and those who are letting one sit for an extended amount of time more apparent in the policy.
Wagner said nothing is set in stone, but some of the criteria that could determine if an automobile is a ‘junk vehicle’ would be the amount of time it has been in one spot, its location on the property and whether parts are scattered around it.
There are a number of other factors that are being considered as well. Those factors will find their way into a draft ordinance that Attorney Wagner was tasked with drawing up. That document will be presented for consideration in a future Bourbon Town Council meeting.
