For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK DEALER. Any person who shall be engaged in the business of buying, selling, receiving, storing, collecting, or dealing in scrap metals, secondhand parts of motor vehicles or machinery, machinery which is being kept for the purpose of being dismantled or discarded, bottles, scrap rubber, rags, paper, bones, or junk in general. In reference to used cars and secondhand parts of cars, this shall not be deemed to apply to bona fide secondhand automobile dealers, but the mere fact that the owner or operator of said establishment reconditions or sells some secondhand cars shall not eliminate his or her establishment from the effects of this.
JUNK YARDS. Any area wherein junk is piled, stored, or kept; includes the areas within a person’s yard, field, or place of business.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. Includes all those areas of the city which are used principally for personal living quarters and residences of persons and families.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-1)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see SDCL §§ 2-14-4, 9-29-13