(A) Definition. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Old or scrap copper, brass, trash, waste, batteries, paper, rubbish, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials, and any old items containing the same. JUNK also includes car parts, building materials, stoves, refrigerators, furniture, hot water heaters and any similar items.
JUNK YARD. Premises that are maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk.
(B) (1) R.C. § 715.44 grants to municipal corporations the power to abate any nuisance and to prosecute any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or suffers the nuisance to exist.
(2) A junk yard is declared a nuisance.
(3) No person shall permit any lot, yard or land within the Village of Buckland to become or continue to be a junk yard.
(4) Junk yards licensed under R.C. §§ 4737.05 et seq. are excepted from this section.
(Ord. 224-03, passed 5-8-2003) Penalty, see § 174.99