A. License Required: No person shall carry on or engage in the business of keeping a junk shop, or what is commonly called a junk shop, or carry on or engage in purchasing, selling, bartering, exchanging or other dealings in or the storage of rags, old rope, paper or bagging, old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead or other old metals, rubber, empty bottles or other junk without first obtaining a license therefor from the Town. (Ord. 82-13, 10-19-1982)
B. License Application, Fee: The application for a junk dealer's license shall be in writing, shall be signed by the applicant and shall contain a description of the premises where the business to be licensed is located. The fee for licenses required by this Section shall be as set by the governing body from time to time. The annual fee for such license shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00). (Ord. 82-13, 10-19-1982; amd. 1999 Code)
C. Register Kept: Every owner, proprietor or keeper of a junk shop and every person dealing in junk shall provide and keep a book in which shall be written the date and time of every purchase, a description of the article purchased and the name and residence of the person from whom the article was purchased; except, that this subsection shall not apply to the purchasing of rags, paper or bagging, or empty bottles.
D. Right Of Entry: The place of business, storehouses or yards and the articles, things, goods, wares or merchandise therein of any person engaged in a business mentioned in subsection A of this Section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by the police officers or other authorized officers and agents of the Town.
E. Period For Keeping Articles: No owner, proprietor or keeper of a junk shop and no person dealing in junk shall expose for sale or sell any article within ten (10) days of the time the same shall have been purchased or until the same shall have been upon the premises where the same are offered or exposed for sale of sold for a period of at least ten (10) days. (Ord. 82-13, 10-19-1982)