707.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of Chapter 707, the following words and phrases shall have the following
meanings ascribed to them respectively.
   (a)    "Business premises" or "premises" means the area of a junkyard or a salvage yard as described in a license or application for license, as provided for in this Chapter.
   (b)    "Fence" means a barrier at least six feet, but no more than ten feet in height, constructed of nontransparent materials and maintained so as to obscure the junk from the ordinary view of persons in the City.
   (c)    "Junk" means iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials, but does not include scrap tires base metals; cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics, trash, waste, batteries, paper; rubber; bottles or other glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material which might be prepared to be used again in some form; and any or all of the foregoing; but "junk" does not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as byproducts, waste or scraps from the operation of his own business or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his own manufacturing processes.
   (d)    "Junk or secondhand dealer" means a person who operates a junkyard, shop, store or other place of business as defined above within the City. It does not include persons dealing in old stoves, plowirons and furniture.
   (e)    "Junkyard" means a yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing junk as defined above, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, dismantling, processing, selling or offering for a business or commercial purpose, whether or not the proceeds from such act or acts are to be used for charity.
   (f)    "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
   (g)    "Rubbish and/or trash" means combustible and noncombustible waste materials, including residue from the burning of coal, wood, coke, or other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass crockery, dust and discarded refrigerators, and heating, cooking or incinerator-type appliances. (Ord. 67-04. Passed 7-26-04.)