All junkyards within the corporate limits shall be operated and maintained subject to the following regulations.
(A) All junk stored or kept in such yards shall be so kept that it will not catch and hold water in which mosquitoes may breed and so that it will not constitute a place or places in which rats, mice or other vermin may be harbored, reared or propagated.
(B) All such junkyards shall be enclosed within close-fitting plank or metal solid fences touching the ground on the bottom and being not less than six feet in height, such fence to be built so that it will be impossible for stray cats and/or stray dogs to have access to such junkyards.
(C) Such yards shall be so maintained as to be in a sanitary condition and so as not to be a menace to the public health or safety.
(D) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNKYARD.
(1) JUNKYARD means an establishment or place of business that is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard. JUNKYARD includes scrap metal processors, used auto parts yards, yards providing temporary storage of automobile bodies or parts awaiting disposal as a normal part of the business operation, when the business will continually have like materials located on the premises, garbage dumps and sanitary landfills.
(2) JUNKYARD does not include a recycling center.
(Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-20-103)
(1994 Code, § 13-301) Penalty, see § 92.99