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197781 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIR- GINIA, 1961, BY AMENDING SECTION 13-17.6 THEREOF PERTAINING TO ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES. WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth is authorized to en- act as ordinances certain statutes from the Code of Virginia, provided such ordinances are substantially consistent with the state law; and WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Virginia at its 1973 session amended certain of those statutes of the Code of Virginia, 1950; and WHEREAS, it is thezefore necessa~ry to amend a certain section of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1961, so as to make said section conform to the changes in the Code of Virginia enacted by the General Assembly at its 1973 session. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1. That the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1961, be amended by amending Section 13-17.6 thereof, such amended section to read as follows: Section 13-17.6. Inoperative motor vehicles located on residential, commercial, or agricultural property; prohibition thereof. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep, except within a fully enclosed building or structure, on any property zoned for residential or commercial or agricultural purposes any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, as such are defined in Section 46.1-1, Code of Virginia (1950), whose condition is such that it is economically impractical to make it operative; provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to a licensed business which on June twenty-six, nineteen hundred seventy, is regularly engaged in business as an automobile dealer, salvage dealer or scrap processor. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, at a meeting held July 10, 1973. . Teste: City Clerk