CHAPTER 820
Junk and Scrap Yards

820.01   Junk and scrap yards defined.

820.02   Prohibited within City.

820.03   Building, leasing or operating prohibited.

820.99   Penalty.

   CROSS REFERENCES

   Secondhand dealers - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 4737

   State licensing and required fencing outside City - see Ohio R.C. 4737.05 et seq.

   Public nuisances - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 650

   Junk - see GEN. OFF. 660.13

820.01 JUNK AND SCRAP YARDS DEFINED.

   The terms "junk yard" and "scrap yard," as used in this chapter, are construed to cover the generally accepted view of what constitutes a junk yard or scrap yard and particularly include the storing, burning, fabricating, cutting, packing, trucking and shipping by truck, train, automobile or any other means of transportation of various kinds of old material, such as iron, steel, glass, paper, cordage or any other waste material, and particularly old automobiles, trucks, tires and machinery.

(Ord. 338. Passed 10-22-52.)

820.02 PROHIBITED WITHIN CITY.

   No lands in the City shall be used for a scrap yard or junk yard.

(Ord. 338. Passed 10-22-52.)

820.03 BUILDING, LEASING OR OPERATING PROHIBITED.

   No person, for himself, herself or itself or for others, shall build, maintain, lease or operate a junk yard or scrap yard in the City.

(Ord. 338. Passed 10-22-52.)

820.99 PENALTY.

   Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.

(Ord. 338. Passed 10-22-52.)