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City of San Mateo Municipal Code.

7.17.130 REMOVAL AS PUBLIC NUISANCE.

Five (5) days after adoption of the order declaring the vehicle or parts thereof to be a public nuisance or five (5) days from the date of mailing of notice of the decision, the vehicle or parts thereof may be disposed of by removal to a scrap yard or automobile dismantler's yard. If the local agency determines that commercial channels of disposition are not available or are inadequate, it may dispose of the vehicles by removal to any suitable site operated by it. The local agency may make final disposition of such vehicles or parts thereof or may transfer such vehicles or parts to another, provided such disposal is only for scrap. After a vehicle has been removed it shall not thereafter be reconstructed or made operable.