Abandoned vehicles are found here and there in big cities. The local police are supposed to find such cars and send them to scrap, but very often the police do not have enough time for this. Management companies and owners of private territories often need to make efforts to clear their yard of auto junk on their own. After all, cars that have been parked in the open air for years not only interfere with landscaping, but can also provoke dangerous situations: fire, injuries to children who use old unnecessary vehicles as a toy. The evacuation of old abandoned cars must be timely and carried out based on regulations.
How to evacuate: step-by-step plan
Evacuation of cars abandoned by owners is carried out as follows:
- You must submit a statement to the administration that there is an ownerless car in the yard. Indicate the exact location, color and model. You can attach a photo to make the search easier for government representatives.
- The administration forms a commission of employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate, State Traffic Safety Inspectorate or OATI. They inspect the car, find out what condition it is in, whether no one really needs it or is it waiting for repairs.
- The owner of the vehicle will receive a notice that the property must be removed from the property within 2 weeks.
- If the owner of the car was not found or did not respond to the request, the car will be removed from the yard in any case, but now forcibly.
Mozhaisk District Administration
Organization
| Establishment | Mozhaisk District Administration |
| What area is it located in? | Mozhaisky |
| Organization website | https://mozhaisky.mos.ru |
| What is the address | Moscow, Kubinka street, 3 |
| Telephone | +7 show phone |
| In which region of the Russian Federation | Moscow |
| Working hours | Monday-Thursday: from 08:00 to 17:00, break: from 12:00 to 12:45 Friday: from 08:00 to 15:45, break: from 12:00 to 12:45 |
| [email protected] |
Parking period for an abandoned vehicle
The parking period for an ownerless car is not regulated. Abandonment is determined not by time, but by appearance, grooming, and the presence of a license plate. If a vehicle looks decent, it cannot be considered junk.
Still, there is a period that gives the right to take certain measures, including evacuating an abandoned car from the parking lot and recycling it. It can be several months or even years if the owner abandoned the car for an indefinite period or has not driven it for a long time. If the vehicle has significant damage such as broken glass, headlights, crumpled, rusty body, then these are good reasons to recognize it as ownerless.
What regulations governs
If you want to know how to evacuate an abandoned car, you should study Government Decree No. 569-PP of September 23, 2014 “On the procedure for identifying, moving, temporary storage and disposal of abandoned, including dismantled, vehicles in the city of Moscow.” The Resolution deals with how to correctly identify and remove vehicles that have been standing in the same place for years, where they can be temporarily stored, and what methods to dispose of them.
According to the law, both individuals and legal entities can address these issues to the governing bodies.
Reasons for the appearance of auto junk in yards
- in the event of a major breakdown or after an accident, the car may be parked pending the availability of time and money,
- cars that have been discontinued for a long time are waiting for spare parts to become available, and this can sometimes take a very long time,
- the car is very old and is no longer needed, but they don’t want to spend on a tow truck and disposal,
- the owner went on a long business trip, was imprisoned, or the owner is no longer able to drive a car due to health reasons.
Signs that a car is neglected
Evacuation of abandoned cars takes place if the vehicle is truly ownerless. The car must be located on public territory - in a courtyard next to high-rise buildings, near an apartment building, on the roadway. If we are talking about a car that is parked on private property, then this concerns strictly its owner, and he himself decides how to dispose of his property.
How to evacuate an abandoned car? First you need to recognize it as trash. Such a car has the following characteristics:
- the owner abandoned the car, or they cannot find it;
- the vehicle is damaged beyond repair;
- the car is missing large parts - doors, wheels, tires, glass, etc.;
- no state numbers.
The last point is the most important. If license plates are present, the appearance of the vehicle may fade into the background, because in this case the car is considered the property of a certain person. And only he has the right to dispose of her, move her to another place and decide her fate. If in this case someone decides to independently move the car to another place or take it away from the yard, such actions will be illegal, this is theft of property, as stated in Article 35 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The owner will be right if he goes to court with a claim, as a result of which a criminal case will be opened in accordance with 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
There is an owner
If the car has an owner, then the evacuation of the abandoned vehicle must occur with his consent. He himself decides what to do next: give the movable property for repairs, put it in the garage, sell it for spare parts, or dispose of it.
Concerned neighbors who know the owner can talk to them and politely ask them to decide the fate of the car themselves. If he doesn’t care what happens to the car, then he may lose his rights to it. This is stated in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. After the owner has lost his license, the forced evacuation of an abandoned car from the yard will not be considered an unjustified action. The main thing is to coordinate any decisions with local authorities and obtain their consent.
No owner
In the absence of the owner, the evacuation of ownerless cars is carried out to a special parking lot using a tow truck. Transport can be stored there for up to three months. All this time, local authorities are looking for the owner in order to negotiate with him and decide what to do next with his property.
If during this time no one has responded or claimed their rights to the object, the administration writes a statement and submits it to the court. The statement states that the found car can be considered ownerless. After which the court decides whether it would be advisable to dispose of it. If so, then the iron parts will be run through a press, after which they will be used to make spare parts or other full-fledged products.
Where to go
Where to call to evacuate abandoned cars in Moscow? You can contact your local administration for help. Also to the district prefecture or engineering service. Specialists will either take immediate action or advise what actions need to be taken so that the export procedure takes place in accordance with existing rules.
CEMETERY OF OLD NAGS
It was a little annoying while he was alone. But it wasn't annoying yet.
A silver foreign car Chery “settled” under my window two years ago and hasn’t moved an inch since then. How will it move on flat tires? In addition to the deflated tires, the car differed from its healthy counterparts by a hole in the bumper, bashfully covered by a piece of old blue-and-white cellophane shoved in there.
I probably would have wandered around and around the unfortunate “Chinese” for years, but last summer a fellow sufferer materialized next to him. The abandoned woman was kept company by a rusty red Ford with the front window open invitingly. The tires, however, are still intact: he had to get here somehow.
It was too much! Two strange cars made me, a principled pedestrian, take a closer look at other parking lots in the area. And I was horrified - near every house in our area there are one or two abandoned cars. They stand there for years, their flat tires embedded in the asphalt, and, apparently, they don’t bother anyone.
All the cars are not under prohibitory signs - which means, as auto experts explained to me, the traffic cops are powerless here. Moreover, everything has numbers - it turns out that each car has an owner. But how to find it?
How to remove this vehicle
The evacuation of abandoned cars should not be solely a decision of neighbors or office owners. First you need to contact your local government and ask what to do in this situation. All steps must be followed before removal of an abandoned vehicle from a parking lot is possible.
The authorities will inspect the vehicle and determine its technical condition. They will also do everything possible to find the owner. If the latter does not appear in the near future, the decision on the evacuation of abandoned cars in Moscow is made by the court.
From the yard
If an old rusty car sits outside the windows for a long time, a natural question arises for residents: how to evacuate an abandoned car from the yard. The lack of numbers on it and poor technical condition gives every right to contact the authorities for a quick solution to the problem.
At the same time, local government employees often identify such trash in their yards themselves, and then register it. Typically they monitor the presence of scrap in the following areas:
- adjoining areas;
- arches, passages between houses;
- courtyard areas;
- places where city communications were carried out;
- garbage areas and so on.
Evacuation of an abandoned car from a yard follows the same rules as from a parking lot, private territory or public place. Evacuated vehicles are sent either to a special parking lot or directly to production, where the metal is processed.
From a disabled seat
There are few cases when a driver left a vehicle in a place intended for disabled people and went unpunished. Usually the traffic police monitors this and issues fines to those owners who do not have permission to leave their car in such a place.
This usually happens by accident or absent-mindedness and is eliminated very quickly. But it is much more difficult if disabled people leave their vehicles in suitable parking lots and forget about them forever. As a result, the object becomes unusable due to exposure to precipitation, vandalism and other negative phenomena. To remove vehicles, you need to do exactly the same as described in previous cases.
From private territory
What to do if you find an abandoned car on your property? After all, you can leave your car on someone else’s territory only with the consent of the owner. If a person does this silently, most likely he thinks that the existing rules will not affect him, and he maliciously violates them.
The owner of a vehicle may make the wrong parking location by parking in the wrong place. Even in this case, you have every right to collect a penalty from him. In another case, you can resolve the issue peacefully by asking the person to remove the vehicle and not leave it there anymore. If he goes into conflict, remember - the law is on your side.
How to evacuate an abandoned car from private property? If the owner of the abandoned car never shows up, the vehicle may remain on the property for several months, or even years. To remove it, clearing private property of clutter, you need to follow all the same procedures as when leaving a car in the yard, in a public parking lot or a place for the disabled.
Car owners
A car owner who has not controlled his equipment for some time may one morning find an evacuation warning on the windshield. How to proceed in this case?
- The warning could not have appeared by chance. Perhaps the car has become dirty, covered with fallen leaves or a layer of snow. In this case, you urgently need to put your equipment in order - wash, clean, warm up. If wheels are missing, they should be replaced with new ones. The car must acquire the proper appearance.
- It is also advisable to move the car to another, quieter and safer place. The owner is given two weeks to take such actions.
Perhaps the owner did not have time to act and the car has already been taken to the impound area. The owner will receive a notification about this and the need to pay a fine. You should also act quickly:
- If there is a fine, it must be paid.
- You will need to arrive at the penalty area with your passport and PTS (registration certificate).
After some issues are resolved, the equipment can be picked up. It is recommended to treat cars responsibly, which, without control, may become the target of theft, may lose important parts or end up in a impound area.
Scheme of the prefecture's actions on the application of residents
First you need to submit an application, after which technical inspections carry out a series of actions. In three days, they are required to form a commission for a technical inspection of the object, find its location and conduct an inspection. They will also be sure to draw up an inspection report and take the required number of photos. After this, a search will be conducted for the owner - if he is found and takes action himself, this will greatly simplify the further procedure. If he does not want to do anything, the car is sent for three months of storage in a special parking lot.
As soon as the 3 months have expired, the local government submits all completed inspection reports of the property to the court. After this, the judicial authorities must confirm the ownerlessness of the vehicle and make the right decision regarding its disposal. After 15 days, you can begin to implement the court order. Local authorities enforce all instructions regarding the vehicle.
